What's the difference between perfect and perfectionist?
Perfect
Definition:
(a.) Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
(a.) Well informed; certain; sure.
(a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
(n.) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
(a.) To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his interview, Smith accepts that the EA's response to the flooding has not been perfect.
(2) Selective catheterisation enabled opacification under pressure in more than 80 p. cent of cases, with perfect visualisation of the entire tubes and significant peritoneal passage.
(3) In fact the deep femoral artery represents an exceptional and privileged route for anastomosis that is capable of replacing almost perfectly an obstructed superficial femoral artery and also in a more limited way femoro-popliteal arteries with extensive obstructions.
(4) In 9 other patients studied 2-7 years after transplantation the mean level of parathormone was lower than in the previous group but levels above normal were noted in half of the patients, some of which had perfect renal function and normal serum phosphorus.
(5) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(6) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
(7) Also bear in mind that this request is just that, you are asking the club to place you on the transfer list, which they are perfectly entitled to reject.
(8) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(9) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(10) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
(11) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.
(12) The arrest warrant, which came into effect in 2004, was not perfect, but it was immediately useful, leading to the swift extradition of one of London’s would-be bombers in July 2005, Hussain Osman, from Italy, where he had fled.
(13) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
(14) Michael Grade told ITV staff today that it was the "perfect time" to hand over to a new chief executive, who would inherit a "revitalised" broadcaster.
(15) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
(16) In most cases the fingerprints of duplicates of the same cell line remained perfectly preserved even after long-time passaging.
(17) Incorporation of prosthodontics are expected to depend not only on technical perfection.
(18) That idea may seem irrelevant to those of us who live a broadband lifestyle, but Justin Smith – who tracks the company's movements on the Inside Facebook blog – says that it makes perfect sense.
(19) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
(20) Fifty percent of the amino acids are perfectly conserved in all these proteins as well as in two homologous sequences from the distantly related wolffish.
Perfectionist
Definition:
(n.) One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even so, the perfectionist in Mourinho will have pinpointed the areas that still need work before Arsenal’s arrival at Stamford Bridge.
(2) Murray’s first double fault at deuce brought an angry response - and a pair of aces to hold for 2-1 - from one of the game’s most demanding perfectionists.
(3) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
(4) Then later on, when you could see that this film almost bankrupted Titanus Films, who were the producers, it was costing so much money, and he was a perfectionist, and he wouldn't give up, and he used to stand with his hand behind his back.
(5) Equally, in every situation, Mason was the defender of Ophuls, a high-strung, stylistic perfectionist who was having a hard time in Hollywood.
(6) Lynch, a recruitment consultant, has had a rough ride with viewers for his matter-of-fact manner and sometimes apparently humourless approach: he has proved himself a perfectionist with a wide repertoire, but sometimes less-than-camera-friendly manner.
(7) It's very attractive and polished, it's giving this ideal, perfectionist view of the world as told by Abercrombie & Fitch."
(8) Meeting the demands of the show's perfectionist creator Matthew Weiner and its sharp-eyed fans can be tricky.
(9) Some widespread recurring clinical features of the various studies include; a premorbid history of perfectionistic traits, an apparently minor precipitating event; and pain involving the head, face and musculoskeletal system.
(10) I’m an emotional perfectionist – I just want things to feel as good as they possibly can for the people who are experiencing them.” He did have another vegan restaurant, in New York, called TeaNY , which he opened in 2002, with his then girlfriend.
(11) Lionel was a perfectionist; in the end, he had to clean up the original soundtrack and use that.
(12) Trump under fire: will 'perfectionist' fold at debate without polling lead?
(13) Typically, the perfectionist director was far from pleased with the movie.
(14) Nineteen studios and umpteen engineers could not satisfy guitarist Kevin Shields, who was either a perfectionist sociopath or on a lot of drugs (or both).
(15) The well-trained athlete, however, may also have a personality that is somewhat rigid, strongly goal oriented, and perfectionist.
(16) Depressed children are described as being anxious, tense, perfectionistic, and unassertive, displaying a low level of self-esteem.
(17) Put another way, he argued, in opposition to utilitarian, perfectionist and communitarian principles, that the first duty of the liberal state was to safeguard the individual's basic civil liberties, and that "the loss of freedom for some" can never be "made right by a greater good shared by others".
(18) With all the drugs, the psychological pressure and physical pain, the psyche-scouring, the perfectionist production values, the pints of gin and tonic, has Shields ever worried that he might lose his mind?
(19) Disturbed behavior at birth may also be related to many other affects which often, but not always, are secondary to anxiety or designed to defend against it: retentive, annoyed, perfectionistic, poor in contact, worried, inactive or confused behavior at birth.
(20) Riggall was clearly a fan, an auto-quoter; also a perfectionist, bothered, as we walked, that the writing on the side of a yellow school bus didn't look quite 1955 enough.