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Imperfect vs Unfriendly - What's the difference?

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Imperfect is a related term of unfriendly.


As adjectives the difference between imperfect and unfriendly

is that imperfect is not perfect while unfriendly is not friendly; hostile; mean.

As nouns the difference between imperfect and unfriendly

is that imperfect is something having a minor flaw while unfriendly is an enemy.

imperfect

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not perfect.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect .
  • * Milton
    • Nothing imperfect or deficient left / Of all that he created.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Then say not man's imperfect , Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
  • (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
    • He stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.

    Related terms

    * imperfection

    Synonyms

    * (not perfect) defective, fallible, faultful

    Antonyms

    * (not perfect) perfect, infallible, faultless * (unisexual) perfect

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something having a minor flaw
  • (grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.

    • unfriendly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • not friendly; hostile; mean
  • unfavourable

    • Antonyms

    * friendly

    Derived terms

    * user-unfriendly

    Noun

    (unfriendlies)
  • An enemy.
  • * 2005 , Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven (page 217)
    • Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.
  • * 2008 , Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity (page 44)
    • You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).