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Noxious vs Imperfect - What's the difference?

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Noxious is a related term of imperfect.


As adjectives the difference between noxious and imperfect

is that noxious is harmful; injurious while imperfect is not perfect.

As a noun imperfect is

something having a minor flaw.

noxious

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Harmful; injurious.
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    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "noxious" is often applied: substance, chemical, fume, gas, odor, plant, weed, animal, stimulus, stimulation.

    Synonyms

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    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.