| Main Entry: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, achieving, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, entireness, evolution, exactness, excellence, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finish, finishing, fulfillment, ideal, idealism, impeccability, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, perfectness, phoenix, precision, purity, quality, realization, ripeness, sublimity, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, wholeness |
Antonyms: |
damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, incompleteness, uselessness, worthlessness |
| Concept: | Perfection. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
perfection; perfectness; indefectibility; impeccancy, impeccability., pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of perfection; ne plus ultra; summit., cygne noir; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor., model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very prince of., masterpiece, superexcellence (goodness); transcendence (superiority).
-verbs
be perfect; transcend (be supreme)., bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete; put in trim (prepare); maturate.
-adjectives
perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Horace]; consummate (complete); finished., best (good); model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned, unparalleled (supreme); superhuman, divine; beyond all praise (approbation); 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].
|
Antonyms: |
imperfection |
| Browse Concept Index » | |
| Main Entry: | completion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accomplishment, finishing |
Synonyms: |
achievement, attainment, close, conclusion, consummation, culmination, curtains, dispatch, end, expiration, finalization, finis, finish, fruition, fulfillment, hips, integration, perfection, realization, swan song, windup, wrap-up |
Antonyms: |
anticlimax, imperfection |
| Main Entry: | consummation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, fulfillment |
Synonyms: |
cleanup, completion, culmination, doing it to a T, end, mop-up, payoff, perfection, realization, to a finish, wind-up, wrap, wrap-up |
Antonyms: |
failure, unfulfillment |
| Main Entry: | crown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | top; best |
Synonyms: |
acme, apex, climax, crest, culmination, fastigium, head, meridian, peak, perfection, pinnacle, roof, summit, tip, top, ultimate, vertex, zenith |
Antonyms: |
bottom, worst |
| Main Entry: | culmination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion; climactic stage |
Synonyms: |
acme, all the way, apex, apogee, blow off, capper, climax, completion, consummation, critical mass, crown, crowning touch, finale, finish, height, limit, maximum, meridian, ne plus ultra, noon, payoff, peak, perfection, pinnacle, punch line, summit, top, zenith |
Antonyms: |
beginning, commencement, opening, start |
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
Synonyms: |
address, cachet, character, consequence, courtliness, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, loftiness, majesty, merit, morality, nobleness, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, seemliness, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, stateliness, station, stature, status, sublimity, virtue, worth, worthiness |
Antonyms: |
lowliness |
| Main Entry: | distinction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prominence; achievement |
Synonyms: |
accolade, account, award, badge, bays, celebrity, consequence, credit, decoration, eminence, excellence, fame, flair, greatness, illustriousness, importance, kudos, laurels, manner, merit, name, note, perfection, preeminence, prestige, quality, rank, renown, reputation, repute, style, superiority, worth |
Antonyms: |
insignificance, lowliness, mediocrity, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | end |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | completion, stop |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, adjournment, attainment, bottom line, cease, cessation, close, closing, closure, conclusion, consequence, consummation, culmination, curtain, denouement, desistance, desuetude, determination, discontinuance, execution, expiration, expiry, finale, finis, finish, fulfillment, issue, last word, omega, outcome, payoff, perfection, realization, resolution, result, retirement, sign-off, target, termination, terminus, upshot, windup, wrap-up |
Antonyms: |
beginning, commencement, opening, start |
| Main Entry: | entirety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wholeness, whole |
Synonyms: |
absoluteness, aggregate, all, allness, collectiveness, collectivity, completeness, complex, comprehensiveness, ensemble, entireness, everything, fullness, gross, intactness, integrality, integrity, omneity, omnitude, oneness, perfection, plenitude, sum, sum total, the works, total, totality, undividedness, unity, universality, whole ball of wax, whole bit, whole enchilada, whole nine yards |
Antonyms: |
fraction, incompleteness, part, partiality, section |