Stunted vs Imperfect - What's the difference?
stunted | imperfect |
(stunt)
prevented from growing or developing
(medicine) low height-for-age (for a person).
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.
As adjectives the difference between stunted and imperfect
is that stunted is prevented from growing or developing while imperfect is not perfect.As a verb stunted
is (stunt).As a noun imperfect is
something having a minor flaw.stunted
English
Verb
(head)- The plant's growth was stunted because it was placed in a closet.
Adjective
(en adjective)Anagrams
*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.