| Main Entry: | fallibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imperfection |
Synonyms: |
errancy, frailty, misjudgment, unreliability |
| Main Entry: | frailty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness, flaw |
Synonyms: |
Achilles heel, blemish, daintiness, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, error, failing, fallibility, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, foil, imperfection, infirmity, peccability, peccadillo, shortcoming, solecism, suscept, weak point |
Antonyms: |
firmness, strength |
| Main Entry: | imperfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flaw |
Synonyms: |
blemish, bug*, catch, defect, deficiency, deformity, demerit, disfigurement, failing, fallibility, fault, foible, frailty, glitch*, gremlin, inadequacy, incompleteness, infirmity, insufficiency, peccadillo, problem, shortcoming, sin, stain, taint, weak point, weakness |
Antonyms: |
excellence, flawlessness, perfection, purity |
| Concept: | Imperfection. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
imperfection; imperfectness; deficiency; inadequacy (insufficiency); peccancy (badness); immaturity., fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw (break); gap; twist; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat; blemish; weakness; half blood; shortcoming; drawback; seamy side., mediocrity; no great shakes, no great catch; not much to boast of; one-borse shay.
-verbs
be imperfect; have a defect; lie under a disadvantage; spring a leak., not pass muster, barely pass muster; fall short.
-adjectives
imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped (distort); lame; injured (deteriorated); peccant (bad); frail (weak); inadequate (insufficient); crude (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement., indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing., secondary, inferior; second-rate, second-best; one-horse [U.S.].
-adverbs
almost; to a limited extent, rather [more]; pretty, moderately, passing; only, considering, all things considered, enough.
-phrases
surgit amari aliquid.
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Antonyms: |
perfection |
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