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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Perfect and faultless
Arcadia
Arcadian
bat a thousandidiom
blamelessly
bow
idyllic
idyllically
immaculacy
immaculate
immaculately
on pointidiom
perfectible
perfection
perfective
perfectly
picture-perfect
the cherry on (top of) the cakeidiom
utopian
whiter than whiteidiom
Xanadu

Examples of perfecting

perfecting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

He parallels perfecting his use of shorthand to perfecting himself, not just as a user of shorthand, but also as a writer of successful novels.
In fact, he seems to hold that new languages may develop by extending and perfecting the basic elements of existing languages.
In making something, stage by stage, we are said to be perfecting it.
Intellectual effort should not be aimed at perfecting reality through thought-practices that distance one from it, but should aim to interpret its intricacies.
Recent progress has been made in improving this aspect by perfecting the geometrical homogeneity of the cell.
She was more concerned with the complexities of electronic sound parameter manipulation, than perfecting the quality of ultimate acoustic output.
We should instead keep asking questions, perfecting techniques, and uncovering new facts for the next edition.
It is readily recognized that there is still some way to go in perfecting the forecasting technique.
This allows one to get an upper bound on the potential improvement offered by perfecting that component.
We all start as musicians with our particular instruments in our respective musical traditions, developing skills that we have spent sometimes decades perfecting, and we go on from there.
Police measures had constantly to aim at improving and perfecting this interlocking machine of trades and occupations.
The suggested model of reading skills development is geared towards perfecting the learner's ability to understand written language, as well as towards contributing to the development of their communicative competence.
Doubtless one may invent without perfecting (this is a question of the historical duration of peoples).
Papel, then, practiced a mixture of upland- and lowland-rice cultivation, perhaps because they were still perfecting wetland-rice techniques.
By 1869 he wrote that 'racial distinctions have no sense' according to a science that sees the perfecting of the species ' in the mixing' of the races.
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