Perverted vs Imperfect - What's the difference?
perverted | imperfect | Synonyms |
deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct
(pejorative, offensive) of, relating to, or practicing unusual or "kinky" sex
misrepresented, altered or distorted
(pervert)
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.
Perverted is a synonym of imperfect.
As adjectives the difference between perverted and imperfect
is that perverted is deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct while imperfect is not perfect.As a verb perverted
is (pervert).As a noun imperfect is
something having a minor flaw.perverted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* pervy (less formal)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(head)imperfect
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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.