Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
2. Degree of Subservience

651. Imperfection.

   NOUN:IMPERFECTION; imperfectness &c. adj.; deficiency; inadequacy (insufficiency) [See Insufficiency]; peccability, defection, peccancy (badness) [See Badness]; immaturity [See Nonpreparation].
  FAULT, defect, “little rift within the lute” [Tennyson], weak point; screw loose; flaw (break) [See Discontinuity]; gap [See Interval]; twist [See Distortion]; taint, attainder; mésalliance [F.], bar sinister; hole in one’s coat; blemish [See Blemish]; weakness [See Weakness]; shortcoming [See Shortcoming]; drawback; seamy side.
  HALF BLOOD, drop of black blood, touch of the tar-brush [colloq.].
  MEDIOCRITY; no great -shakes, – catch [both colloq.]; not much to boast of; one-horse shay; one-horse town; peanut -politics, – policy.
   VERB:BE IMPERFECT &c. adj.; rot before it ripens, bear within it the seeds of decay; have a defect &c. n.; lie under a disadvantage; spring a leak.
  not pass muster, barely pass muster; fall short [See Shortcoming].
   ADJECTIVE:IMPERFECT; not perfect [See Perfection]; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted, specked; mutilated; out of order; out of tune, cracked; leaky; sprung; warped (distort) [See Distortion]; lame; injured (deteriorated) [See Deterioration]; peccant (bad) [See Badness]; frail (weak) [See Weakness]; inadequate (insufficient) [See Insufficiency]; crude (unprepared) [See Nonpreparation]; incomplete [See Incompleteness]; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below -, under- its full -strength, – complement.
  INDIFFERENT, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average [See Mean]; soso or so-so; couci-couci [F.], milk-and-water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty -well, – good; rather -, moderately- good; good -, well- enough; decent; not bad, not amiss; unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, better than nothing.
  SECONDARY, inferior; second-rate, second best; one-horse [U. S.]; two-by-four [U. S.].
   ADVERB:ALMOST &c.; to a limited extent, rather [See Smallness]; pretty, moderately; only, considering, all things considered, enough; might be worse.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Surgit amari aliquid.
2. With all my imperfections on my head.—Hamlet
3. Frailty, thy name is woman.—Hamlet