Vicious vs Imperfect - What's the difference?
vicious | imperfect | Related terms |
Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:
*:We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious .
Evil, immoral or depraved.
Violent, destructive and cruel.
Savage and aggressive.
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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.
Vicious is a related term of imperfect.
As adjectives the difference between vicious and imperfect
is that vicious is pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity while imperfect is not perfect.As a noun imperfect is
something having a minor flaw.vicious
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)Synonyms
*Derived terms
* vicious circleimperfect
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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.