Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, a tense expressing time not perfectly past; the past imperfect: generally called simply imperfect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Gram.) Old name of the tense also called
imperfect .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective grammar, archaic
imperfect - noun grammar, archaic The
imperfect tense .
Etymologies
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preter- + imperfect
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