Misconceived vs Imperfect - What's the difference?
misconceived | imperfect | Related terms |
(misconceive)
to misunderstand
* 1694, William Congreve, The Double-Dealer
Not perfect.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
(botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
(taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
(obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
* Jeremy Taylor
Something having a minor flaw
(grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
Misconceived is a related term of imperfect.
As a verb misconceived
is (misconceive).As an adjective imperfect is
not perfect.As a noun imperfect is
something having a minor flaw.misconceived
English
Verb
(head)misconceive
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Nay, misconceive me not, madam, when I say I have had a gen'rous and a faithful passion, which you had never favoured, but through revenge and policy.
Derived terms
* misconceptionimperfect
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect .
- Nothing imperfect or deficient left / Of all that he created.
- Then say not man's imperfect , Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
- He stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.