Imperfect vs Snide - What's the difference?
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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.
Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
Imperfect is a related term of snide.
As adjectives the difference between imperfect and snide
is that imperfect is not perfect while snide is disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.As nouns the difference between imperfect and snide
is that imperfect is something having a minor flaw while snide is an underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practise; a sharper; a beat.imperfect
English
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.
Synonyms
* (not perfect) defective, fallible, faultfulAntonyms
* (not perfect) perfect, infallible, faultless * (unisexual) perfectNoun
(en noun)snide
English
Adjective
(er)- Don't make snide remarks to me.
- He was a snide lawyer.
- I received a shipment of snide goods.