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Perfectly vs. Perfect — What's the Difference?

Perfectly vs. Perfect — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Perfectly and Perfect

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Perfectly

In a perfect manner or to a perfect degree.

Perfect

Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind.

Perfectly

To a complete or full degree or extent; wholly
The diners were perfectly satisfied with the meal. See Usage Note at perfect.

Perfect

Being without defect or blemish
A perfect specimen.

Perfectly

With perfection.
They completed the first series perfectly.
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Perfect

Thoroughly skilled or talented in a certain field or area; proficient.

Perfectly

Wholly, completely, totally.
Their performance was perfectly fine.
Skydiving is jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

Perfect

Completely suited for a particular purpose or situation
She was the perfect actress for the part.

Perfectly

In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly.
As many as touched were made perfectly whole.

Perfect

Completely corresponding to a description, standard, or type
A perfect circle.
A perfect gentleman.

Perfectly

Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers;
An absolutely magnificent painting
A perfectly idiotic idea
You're perfectly right
Utterly miserable
You can be dead sure of my innocence
Was dead tired
Dead right

Perfect

Accurately reproducing an original
A perfect copy of the painting.

Perfectly

In a perfect or faultless way;
She performed perfectly on the balance beam
Spoke English perfectly
Solved the problem perfectly

Perfect

Complete; thorough; utter
A perfect fool.

Perfect

Pure; undiluted; unmixed
Perfect red.

Perfect

Excellent and delightful in all respects
A perfect day.

Perfect

(Botany) Having both stamens and pistils in the same flower; monoclinous.

Perfect

Capable of sexual reproduction. Used of fungi.

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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