💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Perfect system"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| present systemnoun | In Latin, the three simple tenses: present, future, and imperfect, as contrasted with the perfect system, the three perfect tenses: perfect, future perfect, and pluperfect. Verbs in the present system tend to indicate an action that has not completed. |
| secondary tensenoun | (grammar) In English, the analytic distinction between perfect and non-perfect verb phrases. |
| past perfectnoun | A tense which describes actions that occurred before another action or event in the past; the pluperfect or the past anterior tense. |
| present perfectnoun | (grammar) A perfect tense that expresses action in the past (usually completed) with consequences in the present time. |
| plusperfectnoun | Archaic form of pluperfect. [The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.] |
| perfect | Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality. |
| pluperfectnoun | The pluperfect tense, the past perfect. |
| past perfect continuousnoun | (grammar) A tense that expresses an unbroken action continuing up to a certain time in the past. In English it is formed by using had been with a present participle. |
| perfective | (grammar) Of, or relative to, the perfect tense or perfective aspect. |
| preterperfectnoun | (grammar, archaic) perfect |
| perfectivizationnoun | (grammar) The process of forming a perfective verb from the imperfective verbal stem. |
| pluperfect tensenoun | (grammar, of a verb) Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb. |
| preteritenoun | (grammar) A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past. |
| imperfect tensenoun | (grammar) A tense used to describe a past action that is ongoing, incomplete or continuous, or coincident with another action. |
| perfect tensenoun | Often, specifically, the present perfect tense as distinguished from the past perfect and future perfect tenses. |
| preterite tensenoun | (grammar) A verb tense indicating action in the past and marked by verb inflection; the preterite. |
| perfective aspectnoun | (grammar) A feature of the verb which denotes viewing the event the verb describes as a completed whole, rather than from within the event as it unfolds. For example, "she sat down" as opposed to "she was sitting down". Since the focus is on the completion of what is expressed by the verb, this aspect is generally associated with the past and future tenses. This term is often used interchangeably with aorist aspect. This is not to be confused with the perfect tense. |
| primary tensenoun | (grammar) In English, inflectional tense: the synthetic distinction between present and preterite. |
| preterpluperfectnoun | (grammar, archaic) The pluperfect. |
| future simplenoun | (grammar) The perfective future tense. |
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