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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.fɪkt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-fɛkt/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈpɝ.fɪkt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈpɜː.fekt/
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• homophone: purrfect
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)fɪkt
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)fɛkt
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• Received-Pronunciation: /pəˈfɛkt/
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• Canada, General-American: /pɚˈfɛkt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /pəˈfekt/
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• rhymes with -ɛkt
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• CMU ARPABET: P ER0 F EH1 K T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: P ER1 F IH2 K T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English perfit, from Old French parfit (modern: parfait), from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere (“to finish”), from per- (“through, thorough”) + facere (“to do, to make”). The spelling was modified in the 15th century to conform to its Latin etymon. Doublet of parfait, perfecto, and perfectus. Displaced native Old English fulfremed.

From perfect (adjective).

289 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Antillean Creole: olendeng — fitting its definition precisely
• Antillean Creole: opwaldèkawòt — fitting its definition precisely
• Antillean Creole: zwèl — fitting its definition precisely
• Antillean Creole: ozuil — fitting its definition precisely
• Antillean Creole: zuil — fitting its definition precisely
• Arabic: كَامِل (kāmil) — fitting its definition precisely
• Armenian: կատարյալ (kataryal) — fitting its definition precisely
• Azerbaijani: mükəmməl — fitting its definition precisely
• Basque: perfektu — fitting its definition precisely
• Belarusian: даскана́лы (daskanály) — fitting its definition precisely
• Breton: pervezh — fitting its definition precisely
• Bulgarian: съвърше́н (sǎvǎršén) — fitting its definition precisely
• Catalan: perfecte — fitting its definition precisely
• Chinese Mandarin: 完美 (wánměi) — fitting its definition precisely
• Chinese Mandarin: 完善 (wánshàn) — fitting its definition precisely
• Cornish: perfydh — fitting its definition precisely
• Czech: dokonalý — fitting its definition precisely
• Danish: perfekt — fitting its definition precisely
• Dutch: volmaakt — fitting its definition precisely
• Dutch: perfect — fitting its definition precisely
• Dutch: volkomen — fitting its definition precisely
• Esperanto: perfekta — fitting its definition precisely
• Estonian: täiuslik — fitting its definition precisely
• Estonian: perfektne — fitting its definition precisely
• Finnish: täydellinen — fitting its definition precisely
• French: parfait — fitting its definition precisely
• Georgian: სრულყოფილი (srulq̇opili) — fitting its definition precisely
• German: perfekt — fitting its definition precisely
• German: vollkommen — fitting its definition precisely
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍉𐌾𐌹𐍃 (fullatōjis) — fitting its definition precisely
• Hebrew: מושלם (mushlám) — fitting its definition precisely
• Hindi: उत्तम (uttam) — fitting its definition precisely
• Hindi: कामिल (kāmil) — fitting its definition precisely
• Hindi: निष्कलंक (niṣkalaṅk) — fitting its definition precisely
• Hungarian: tökéletes — fitting its definition precisely
• Indonesian: sempurna — fitting its definition precisely
• Italian: perfetto — fitting its definition precisely
• Japanese: 正確 (seikaku na) — fitting its definition precisely
• Khmer: ល្អឥតខ្ចោះ (lʼɑɑ ʼət khcɑh) — fitting its definition precisely
• Korean: 완벽하다 (wanbyeokhada) — fitting its definition precisely
• Latin: perfectus — fitting its definition precisely
• Macedonian: совршен (sovršen) — fitting its definition precisely
• Norwegian: perfekt — fitting its definition precisely
• Old English: fulfremed — fitting its definition precisely
• Persian: کامل (kâmel) — fitting its definition precisely
• Polish: doskonały — fitting its definition precisely
• Portuguese: perfeito — fitting its definition precisely
• Romanian: perfect — fitting its definition precisely
• Russian: соверше́нный (soveršénnyj) — fitting its definition precisely
• Russian: безупре́чный (bezupréčnyj) — fitting its definition precisely
• Russian: безукори́зненный (bezukoríznennyj) — fitting its definition precisely
• Russian: идеа́льный (ideálʹnyj) — fitting its definition precisely
• Serbo-Croatian: са̀вр̄шен — fitting its definition precisely
• Serbo-Croatian: sàvr̄šen — fitting its definition precisely
• Sicilian: pricisupirfettu — fitting its definition precisely
• Slovak: dokonalý — fitting its definition precisely
• Slovene: popoln — fitting its definition precisely
• Spanish: perfecto — fitting its definition precisely
• Swedish: fullkomlig — fitting its definition precisely
• Swedish: fulländad — fitting its definition precisely
• Swedish: perfekt — fitting its definition precisely
• Tagalog: himpit — fitting its definition precisely
• Tajik: комил (komil) — fitting its definition precisely
• Thai: สมบูรณ์ (sǒm-buun) — fitting its definition precisely
• Turkish: mükemmel — fitting its definition precisely
• Ukrainian: доскона́лий (doskonályj) — fitting its definition precisely
• Urdu: کامل (kāmil) — fitting its definition precisely
• Uzbek: mukammal — fitting its definition precisely
• Vietnamese: hoàn toàn — fitting its definition precisely
• Welsh: perffaith — fitting its definition precisely
• Arabic: كَامِل (kāmil) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Armenian: կատարյալ (kataryal) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Azerbaijani: mükəmməl — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Azerbaijani: əla — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Catalan: perfecte — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Chinese Mandarin: 完美 (wánměi) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Chinese Mandarin: 完善 (wánshàn) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Czech: dokonalý — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Dutch: perfect — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Dutch: perfecte — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Finnish: täydellinen — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• French: parfait — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Georgian: სრულყოფილი (srulq̇opili) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Georgian: სრულქმნილი (srulkmnili) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Hungarian: tökéletes — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Indonesian: sempurna — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Irish: foirfe — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Italian: perfetto — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Japanese: 完全な (kanzen na) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Japanese: 全い (mattai) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Old English: fulfremed — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Polish: doskonały — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Portuguese: perfeito — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Romanian: perfect — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Russian: соверше́нный (soveršénnyj) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Russian: безупре́чный (bezupréčnyj) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Russian: безукори́зненный (bezukoríznennyj) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Russian: идеа́льный (ideálʹnyj) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Scottish Gaelic: foirfe — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Sicilian: pricisupirfettu — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Spanish: perfecto — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Swedish: fullkomlig — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Swedish: fulländad — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Swedish: perfekt — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Telugu: సంపూర్ణ (sampūrṇa) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Telugu: పరిపూర్ణ (paripūrṇa) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Ukrainian: ідеа́льний (ideálʹnyj) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Ukrainian: доверше́ний (doveršényj) — having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose
• Azerbaijani: mükəmməl — without fault or mistake
• Azerbaijani: qüsursuz — without fault or mistake
• Azerbaijani: nöqsansız — without fault or mistake
• Azerbaijani: eyibsiz — without fault or mistake
• Belarusian: даскана́лы (daskanály) — without fault or mistake
• Bulgarian: безупречен (bezuprečen) — without fault or mistake
• Catalan: perfecte — without fault or mistake
• Chinese Mandarin: 完美 (wánměi) — without fault or mistake
• Maore Comorian: -kamilifu — without fault or mistake
• Dutch: volmaakt — without fault or mistake
• Dutch: perfect — without fault or mistake
• Esperanto: perfekta — without fault or mistake
• Finnish: täydellinen — without fault or mistake
• Finnish: virheetön — without fault or mistake
• French: parfait — without fault or mistake
• Georgian: სრულყოფილი (srulq̇opili) — without fault or mistake
• Georgian: უზადო (uzado) — without fault or mistake
• German: perfekt — without fault or mistake
• German: vollkommen — without fault or mistake
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍉𐌾𐌹𐍃 (fullatōjis) — without fault or mistake
• Hungarian: kifogástalan — without fault or mistake
• Hungarian: hibátlan — without fault or mistake
• Indonesian: sempurna — without fault or mistake
• Japanese: 完璧な (kanpeki na) — without fault or mistake
• Japanese: 全い (mattai) — without fault or mistake
• Korean: 완벽하다 (wanbyeokhada) — without fault or mistake
• Latin: perfectus — without fault or mistake
• Lithuanian: tobulas — without fault or mistake
• Māori: paruhi — without fault or mistake
• Māori: pāruhiruhi — without fault or mistake
• Māori: takarepakore — without fault or mistake
• Māori: hauora — without fault or mistake
• Old English: fulfremed — without fault or mistake
• Persian: پرفکت (perfekt) — without fault or mistake
• Polish: perfekcyjny — without fault or mistake
• Portuguese: perfeito — without fault or mistake
• Russian: безупре́чный (bezupréčnyj) — without fault or mistake
• Russian: безукори́зненный (bezukoríznennyj) — without fault or mistake
• Sicilian: pricisupirfettu — without fault or mistake
• Sicilian: latinu — without fault or mistake
• Spanish: perfecto — without fault or mistake
• Swedish: felfri — without fault or mistake
• Swedish: perfekt — without fault or mistake
• Tamil: பக்கா (pakkā) — without fault or mistake
• Thai: ไม่ผิดพลาด (mâi pìt plâat) — without fault or mistake
• Thai: ไร้ตําหนิ (rái-dtam-nì) — without fault or mistake
• Ukrainian: доскона́лий (doskonályj) — without fault or mistake
• Vietnamese: hoàn hảo — without fault or mistake
• Welsh: perffaith — without fault or mistake
• Catalan: perfecte — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Czech: dokonalý — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Finnish: taitava — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Finnish: täydellinen — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Finnish: mestarillinen — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Romanian: perfect — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Scottish Gaelic: foirfe — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Sicilian: spertupirfettu — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Swedish: fullkomlig — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Swedish: fulländad — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Swedish: perfekt — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Thai: เชี่ยวชาญ (chîao-chaan) — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Thai: ชํานาญ (cham-naan) — thoroughly skilled or talented
• Catalan: perfecte — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Czech: dokonalý — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Finnish: täydellinen — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Finnish: suurenmoinen — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Hungarian: tökéletes — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Japanese: 完璧な (kanpeki na) — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Māori: pāruhiruhi — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Māori: paruhi — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Polish: idealny — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Polish: doskonały — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Polish: perfekcyjny — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Portuguese: perfeito — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Scottish Gaelic: foirfe — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Slovene: popoln — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Spanish: perfecto — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Swedish: fantastisk — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Swedish: perfekt — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Swedish: väldigt fin — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Swedish: underbar — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Swedish: utmärkt — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Telugu: పరిపూర్ణ (paripūrṇa) — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Turkish: mükemmel — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Vietnamese: hoàn mĩ — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Welsh: i'r dim — excellent and delightful in all respects
• Belarusian: зако́нчаны (zakónčany) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Belarusian: даскана́лы (daskanály) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Bulgarian: свъ́ршен (svǎ́ršen) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Catalan: perfet — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Chinese Mandarin: 完成式 (wánchéngshì) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Dutch: voltooid — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Dutch: voltooide — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Finnish: perfektinen — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Finnish: perfekti- — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• French: parfait — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Georgian: ნამყო სრული (namq̇o sruli) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Georgian: პრეფექტი (ṗrepekṭi) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Ancient Greek: παρακείμενος (parakeímenos) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Hebrew: נִשְׁלָם (nishlám) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Hungarian: befejezett — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Irish: foirfe — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Japanese: 完了の (kanryō no) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Latin: perfectus — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Persian: کامل (kâmel) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Polish: dokonany — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Portuguese: perfeito — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Romanian: perfectul simplu — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Russian: соверше́нный (soveršénnyj) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Sicilian: pirfettu — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Spanish: perfecto — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Swedish: perfekt — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Thai: กาลสมบูรณ์ (gaa-lá-sǒm-buun) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Ukrainian: доко́наний (dokónanyj) — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Vietnamese: hoàn thành — grammar: of a tense or verb form: representing a completed action
• Finnish: kypsä — biology: sexually mature and fully differentiated
• Swedish: fullt utvecklad — biology: sexually mature and fully differentiated
• Finnish: kaksineuvoinen — botany: having both male and female parts
• Finnish: täydellinen — botany: having both male and female parts
• Persian: کامل (kâmel) — botany: having both male and female parts
• Thai: สมบูรณ์เพศ (sǒm-buun-pêet) — botany: having both male and female parts
• Basque: perfektu — music: interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
• Chinese Cantonese: 純 /纯 (seon4) — music: interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
• Chinese Mandarin: 純 /纯 (chún) — music: interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
• Chinese Mandarin: 完全 (wánquán) — music: interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
• Czech: čistý — music: interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
• Finnish: puhdas — music: interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
• Hungarian: tiszta — music: interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
• Spanish: perfecto — music: interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
• Vietnamese: đúng — music: interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
• Catalan: perfet — The perfect tense
• Latin: perfectum — The perfect tense
• Albanian: përsos — make perfect
• Arabic: أَتْقَنَ (ʔatqana) — make perfect
• Belarusian: удаскана́льваць (udaskanálʹvacʹ) — make perfect
• Belarusian: удаскана́ліць (udaskanálicʹ) — make perfect
• Belarusian: даскана́ліць (daskanálicʹ) — make perfect
• Bulgarian: усъвърше́нствувам (usǎvǎršénstvuvam) — make perfect
• Catalan: perfeccionar — make perfect
• Czech: zdokonalit — make perfect
• Dutch: perfectioneren — make perfect
• Esperanto: perfektigi — make perfect
• Finnish: tehdä täydelliseksi — make perfect
• Finnish: täydellistää — make perfect
• French: perfectionner — make perfect
• French: parfaire — make perfect
• German: vollenden — make perfect
• German: perfektionieren — make perfect
• German: vervollkommnen — make perfect
• Greek: τελειοποιώ (teleiopoió) — make perfect
• Hungarian: tökéletesít — make perfect
• Hungarian: tökélyre fejleszt — make perfect
• Italian: perfezionare — make perfect
• Latin: perficiō — make perfect
• Macedonian: усовршува (usovršuva) — make perfect
• Macedonian: усоврши (usovrši) — make perfect
• Polish: doskonalić — make perfect
• Polish: udoskonalać — make perfect
• Polish: udoskonalić — make perfect
• Portuguese: aperfeiçoar — make perfect
• Romanian: perfecta — make perfect
• Russian: соверше́нствовать (soveršénstvovatʹ) — make perfect
• Russian: усоверше́нствовать (usoveršénstvovatʹ) — make perfect
• Slovak: zdokonaľovať — make perfect
• Slovak: zdokonaliť — make perfect
• Slovene: izpopolniti — make perfect
• Spanish: perfeccionar — make perfect
• Spanish: dar cabo — make perfect
• Spanish: llevar a cabo — make perfect
• Spanish: llevar al cabo — make perfect
• Swedish: finslipa — make perfect
• Swedish: fullkomna — make perfect
• Swedish: fullända — make perfect
• Swedish: förbättra — make perfect
• Swedish: förfina — make perfect
• Swedish: göra perfekt — make perfect
• Turkish: kusursuzlaştırmak — make perfect
• Ukrainian: удоскона́лювати (udoskonáljuvaty) — make perfect
• Ukrainian: удоскона́лити (udoskonályty) — make perfect
• Ukrainian: вдоскона́лювати (vdoskonáljuvaty) — make perfect
• Ukrainian: вдоскона́лити (vdoskonályty) — make perfect