1. (a.) Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; defective; deficient.

2. (a.) Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

3. (a.) Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.

4. (n.) The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.

5. (v. t.) To make imperfect.

adulterated aggravated amiss aorist base blemished broken burned burst busted checked chipped cracked crazed cut damaged defective deficient deteriorated durative embittered erroneous exacerbated failing fallible faulty flawed found wanting future future perfect harmed historical present hurt immature impaired imprecise impure in bits in pieces in shards inaccurate inadequate incompetent incomplete inexact injured insufficient irritated lacerated lacking little makeshift maladroit mangled mean mediocre mixed mutilated not comparable not enough not in it not perfect off out of it partial past past perfect patchy perfect petty pluperfect point tense present present perfect preterit progressive tense rent ruptured scalded scorched shabby shattered short sick sketchy slashed slit small smashed split sprung tense the worse for too little torn trivial undeveloped unequal to uneven unfinished unperfected unqualified unsatisfactory unsatisfying unskillful unsound unsufficing unthorough wanting weakened worse worse off worsened