Beautiful vs. Perfect — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Beautiful and Perfect
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Beautiful
Having qualities that delight or appeal to the senses and often the mind.
Perfect
Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind.
Beautiful
Excellent; wonderful
Hit a beautiful shot from the tee.
Perfect
Being without defect or blemish
A perfect specimen.
Beautiful
Used to express approval or delight.
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Perfect
Thoroughly skilled or talented in a certain field or area; proficient.
Beautiful
Attractive and possessing beauty.
Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.
There's a beautiful lake by the town.
Perfect
Completely suited for a particular purpose or situation
She was the perfect actress for the part.
Beautiful
Good, admirable.
He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.
You've done a beautiful thing today.
Perfect
Completely corresponding to a description, standard, or type
A perfect circle.
A perfect gentleman.
Beautiful
(of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.
Perfect
Accurately reproducing an original
A perfect copy of the painting.
Beautiful
Well executed.
The skater performed a beautiful axel.
Perfect
Complete; thorough; utter
A perfect fool.
Beautiful
Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.
Hey, beautiful!
Perfect
Pure; undiluted; unmixed
Perfect red.
Beautiful
Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind.
A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram.
Perfect
Excellent and delightful in all respects
A perfect day.
Beautiful
Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration;
A beautiful child
Beautiful country
A beautiful painting
A beautiful theory
A beautiful party
Perfect
(Botany) Having both stamens and pistils in the same flower; monoclinous.
Beautiful
Aesthetically pleasing
Perfect
Capable of sexual reproduction. Used of fungi.
Beautiful
(of weather) highly enjoyable;
What a beautiful day
Perfect
(Grammar) Of, relating to, or constituting a verb form expressing action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.
Perfect
(Music) Designating the three basic intervals of the octave, fourth, and fifth.
Perfect
(Grammar) The aspect of a verb that expresses action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.
Perfect
A verb or verb form having this aspect.
Perfect
To bring to perfection or completion
Perfected the technique to isolate the virus.
Perfect
Fitting its definition precisely.
A perfect circle
Perfect
Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
That bucket with the hole in the bottom is a poor bucket, but it is perfect for watering plants.
Perfect
Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.
Practice makes perfect.
Perfect
Excellent and delightful in all respects.
A perfect day
Perfect
(mathematics) Of a number: equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
6 is perfect because the sum of its proper divisors, 1, 2, and 3, which is 6, is equal to the number itself.
Perfect
Representing a completed action.
Perfect
(biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
Perfect
(botany) Of flowers, having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
Perfect
(analysis) Of a set: equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A .
Perfect
(music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
Perfect
(of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
A perfect Manhattan; a perfect Rob Roy
Perfect
(obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.
Perfect
(obsolete) Innocent, guiltless.
Perfect
(grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
Perfect
(video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.
Perfect
A leader of the Cathar movement.
Perfect
(transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.
I am going to perfect this article.
You spend too much time trying to perfect your dancing.
Perfect
(legal) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.
Perfect an appeal; perfect an interest; perfect a judgment
Perfect
Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
My strength is made perfect in weakness.
Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun.
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
O most entire perfect sacrifice!
God made thee perfect, not immutable.
Perfect
Well informed; certain; sure.
I am perfect that the Pannonains are now in arms.
Perfect
Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; - said of flower.
Perfect
The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
Perfect
To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us.
Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species.
Perfect
A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
Perfect
Make perfect or complete;
Perfect your French in Paris!
Perfect
Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish;
A perfect circle
A perfect reproduction
Perfect happiness
Perfect manners
A perfect specimen
A perfect day
Perfect
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
An arrant fool
A complete coward
A consummate fool
A double-dyed villain
Gross negligence
A perfect idiot
Pure folly
What a sodding mess
Stark staring mad
A thoroughgoing villain
Utter nonsense
Perfect
Precisely accurate or exact;
Perfect timing
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