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| Main Entry: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, evolution, exactness, excellence, finish, fulfillment, ideal, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, precision, purity, quality, realization, superiority, supremacy, virtue, wholeness, achieving, entireness, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finishing, idealism, impeccability, perfectness, phoenix, ripeness, sublimity, transcendence |
| Antonyms: | damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, worthlessness, incompleteness, uselessness |
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-nouns
perfection; perfectness; indefectibility; impeccancy, impeccability., pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of perfection; ne plus ultra; summit [more]., cygne noir; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor., model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very prince of., masterpiece, superexcellence (goodness) [more]; transcendence (superiority) [more].
-verbs
-adjectives
perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection [more]; unblemished, uninjured [more]; sound, in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy (safe) [more]; right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Horace]; consummate (complete) [more]; finished [more]., best (good) [more]; model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned, unparalleled (supreme) [more]; superhuman, divine; beyond all praise (approbation) [more]; sans peur et sans reproche.
-adverbs
to perfection; perfectly; ad unguem; clean, clean as a whistle.
-phrases
"let us go on unto perfection" [ Hebrews vi, 1]; "the perfection of art is to conceal art" [Quintilian].
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| Antonyms: | imperfection |
| Main Entry: | completion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accomplishment, finishing |
| Synonyms: | achievement, attainment, close, conclusion, consummation, culmination, curtains*, dispatch, end, expiration, finish, fruition, fulfillment, integration, perfection, realization, swan song*, finalization, finis, hips, windup, wrap-up |
| Antonyms: | anticlimax, imperfection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consummation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, fulfillment |
| Synonyms: | completion, culmination, end, payoff, perfection, realization, wrap, cleanup, doing it to a T, mop-up, to a finish, wind-up, wrap-up |
| Antonyms: | failure, unfulfillment |
| Main Entry: | culmination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion; climactic stage |
| Synonyms: | acme, apex, apogee, climax, completion, consummation, critical mass, crown, finale, finish, height, limit, maximum, meridian, ne plus ultra, noon, payoff, peak, perfection, pinnacle, punch line*, summit, top, zenith, all the way, blow off*, capper, crowning touch |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, opening, start |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
| Synonyms: | address, cachet, character, consequence, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, majesty, merit, morality, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, station, stature, status, virtue, worth, courtliness, loftiness, nobleness, seemliness, stateliness, sublimity, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | lowliness |
| Main Entry: | entirety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wholeness, whole |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, all, completeness, complex, ensemble, everything, fullness, gross, integrity, oneness, perfection, sum, total, totality, unity, absoluteness, allness, collectiveness, collectivity, comprehensiveness, entireness, intactness, integrality, omneity, omnitude, plenitude, sum total, the works, undividedness, universality, whole ball of wax, whole bit, whole enchilada, whole nine yards |
| Antonyms: | fraction, part, partiality, section, incompleteness |
| Main Entry: | excellence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superiority |
| Synonyms: | éclat, arete, class, distinction, eminence, goodness, greatness, merit, perfection, purity, quality, supremacy, virtue, worth, excellency, fineness, high quality, preeminence, superbness, transcendence |
| Antonyms: | failure, imperfection, inferiority |
| Main Entry: | finality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | definiteness, conclusiveness |
| Synonyms: | completeness, entirety, finish, integrity, perfection, resolution, totality, wholeness, certitude, decidedness, decisiveness, inevitableness, intactness, irrevocability, terminality, unavoidability |
| Antonyms: | continuity, inconclusiveness, indefiniteness |
| Main Entry: | fruition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, maturation |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, attainment, completion, consummation, enjoyment, fulfillment, gratification, maturity, perfection, pleasure, realization, satisfaction, success, actualization, materialization, ripeness |
| Antonyms: | failure, unfulfillment |
| Main Entry: | fulfillment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accomplishment, completion |
| Synonyms: | achievement, attainment, consummation, contentment, crowning, discharge, end, gratification, kick*, perfection, realization, carrying out, carrying through, contentedness, discharging, effecting, implementation, just the ticket, kicks observance*, you got it |
| Antonyms: | disappointment, dissatisfaction, failure, frustration, unfulfillment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ideal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | model |
| Synonyms: | archetype, criterion, epitome, example, exemplar, goal, idol, jewel, last word*, mirror, nonesuch, nonpareil, paradigm, paragon, pattern, perfection, prototype, standard |
| Notes: | ideal means conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; idealistic means of or pertaining to idealists or their theories, pursuing perfection |
| Antonyms: | error, flaw, imperfection, problem, wrong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | masterpiece |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | respected work of art |
| Synonyms: | chef d'oeuvre, classic, cream of the crop*, cream*, flower, gem*, jewel*, magnum opus, master work, masterstroke, model, monument, perfection, pièce de résistance, prize, showpiece, standard, tour de force*, treasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
| Synonyms: | ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, fullness, majority, manhood, mentality, perfection, prime, readiness, sophistication, wisdom, full bloom, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, postpubescence, prime of life, ripeness, womanhood |
| Antonyms: | childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | merit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
| Synonyms: | arete, asset, benefit, caliber, credit, desert, dignity, excellence, good, goodness, honor, integrity, perfection, quality, stature, talent, value, virtue, worth, excellency, strong point, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | demerit, disadvantage, fault, weakness |
| Main Entry: | paragon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outstanding example |
| Synonyms: | apotheosis, archetype, beau ideal*, beauty, best, champion, crackerjack*, cream*, criterion, epitome, essence, exemplar, gem, ideal, jewel*, love, lovely, model, nonesuch, nonpareil, original, paradigm, pattern, perfection, pick, prototype, quintessence, standard, ultimate, champ, cynosure, peach, sublimation, tops, trump* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | superiority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, predominance |
| Synonyms: | ahead, ascendancy, authority, better, bulge, dominance, edge, eminence, excellence, influence, lead, nobility, perfection, position, power, preponderance, prestige, prevalence, pull, rank, spark, supremacy, top, upper hand*, victory, meliority, predomination, preeminence, transcendence, vantage, whip hand |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inferiority, subservience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | utopia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ideal place and life |
| Synonyms: | Eden, Shangri-La*, bliss, dreamland, heaven, land of milk and honey*, never-never land*, paradise, perfection, pie in the sky*, promised land*, seventh heaven*, Arcadia, Elysian Fields, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, dreamworld, fairyland, wonderland |
| Antonyms: | hell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | worth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | value, estimation associated with something |
| Synonyms: | account, aid, assistance, avail, benefit, caliber, class, consequence, cost, credit, dignity, equivalence, excellence, goodness, help, importance, mark, merit, moment, note, perfection, price, quality, rate, significance, stature, use, usefulness, utility, valuation, virtue, weight, desirability, meaningfulness, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | beau ideal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ideal instance |
| Synonyms: | epitome, exemplar, ideal, model, nonpareil, paragon, perfection, role model, good example, ideal beauty, perfect model, perfect type, person to look up to, shining example |
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