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Complete in every way and having no faults or errors.

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Used as an adjective, listen here, it means: Complete in every way and having no faults or errors. Used as a verb, listen here, it means: To bring to completion; To finish; To make flawless or faultless.

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  • Of your halfe foote in a verse & those verses which they called perfect and defective.
  • It's what I call a perfect day, actually--cool, with mist occasionally deepening to rain.
  • It's what I call a perfect storm of confusion about what's important in our human connections.
  • "We have a couple of things going in our direction that create what I call the perfect storm for reform."
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  • ''perfect" is a heteronym, which means you may find it with different pronunciations and different meanings.
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