Reverse Dictionary: PERFECT

ADJECTIVES
1405 — CROWNED unfailingly effective, perfect; also, completed, consummated
1495 — PERFECTIONAL perfect; characterized by perfection
1535 — PERFECTABLE capable of being brought to perfection
1590 — PERFECTIVE tending to make perfect or complete
1601 — PARAGON of surpassing excellence; perfect in excellence
1607 — PERFECTIOUS perfect; characterized by perfection → obs. exc. Sc.
1608 — QUADRATE complete, perfect → obs.
1652 — PRETERPLUPERFECT superlatively perfect or faultless → chiefly humorous usage
1678 — OMNIPERFECT all-perfect → obs.
1682 — SATURATE complete, perfect → obs.
1693 — PERFECTORY tending to make perfect or complete → obs.
1703 — PAT — PAT-OFF fit, proper, appropriate; ready, fluent, perfect, accurate → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1771 — PERFICK perfect; often with the implication that the speaker is from an unsophisticated, rural, or uneducated background → colloq.
1784 — PRETERPERFECT more than perfect; surpassing the point of perfection → obs.
1819 — DEAD perfect; genuine; veritable; unmistakable; absolute → Amer. sl.
1825 — GRADELY proper, fit, right; real, genuine, true; good, satisfactory, perfect → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1832 — JAM excellent, perfect; thorough → colloq.
1841 — JAM-UP excellent, perfect; thorough → colloq.
1843 — PARFIT perfect → Eng. dial.
.M19 — SPLENDIFEROUS wonderful, perfect → sl.
1866 — RED-HOT excellent, perfect, magnificent → Amer. sl.
1869 — IMPERFECTIBLE incapable of being made perfect
1884 — TEETOTAL perfect; complete, entire
..L19 — UP TO DICK up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect → Amer. sl.
..20C — FULLY — FULLY-ON perfect; the best possible → teen & high school sl.
..20C — JUST THE BOB ideal, perfect, just what is wanted → Aust. sl.
..20C — JUST THE JOB perfect, ideal, exactly as desired and required → sl.
..20C — JUST THE SHILLING ideal, perfect, just what is wanted → Aust. sl.
..20C — JUST THE SHINER ideal, perfect, just what is wanted → Aust. sl.
..20C — JUST THE SHINY ideal, perfect, just what is wanted → Aust. sl.
..20C — JUST THE TICKET perfect, ideal, exactly as desired and required → sl.
1904 — PUFFICK perfect → Amer. dial.
1908 — PLUTERPERFECT utterly perfect; quintessential
1910 — JUST THE GEARS ideal, perfect, just what is wanted → sl.
1910 — JUST THE HAMMER ideal, perfect, just what is wanted → sl.
1941 — PERFECTO perfect; excellent → colloq., orig. US
1942 — PERF perfect → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — PERFECKLE perfect → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — TO THE KNOCKER up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — UP TO SAMPLE up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — UP TO SCRATCH up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — UP TO THE HANDLE up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — UP TO THE HIGH-WATER MARK up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — UP TO THE KNOCKER up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — UP TO THE MARK up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — UP TO THE NOTCH up to standard; hence, excellent, perfect → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1960 — APPLE-PIE excellent; perfect; neat, tidy → Amer. dial.
1960 — DAPPER admirable, excellent; perfect→ African-American sl.
1967 — FANTABULOSA excellent, perfect, wonderful → UK sl.
1970 — DEF perfect, excellent, first-rate → sl., orig. African-American
1991 — ALL DAT — ALL O’ DAT — ALL THAT first-rate, perfect → Amer. rap music usage
2000 — DAP Dead-Ass Perfect → US golfers’ sl.
2000 — ICE-CREAM perfect, as desired → US sl.

ADVERBS
1400 — LEAL truly, exactly, accurately; perfectly, thoroughly → obs. exc. Sc.
1425 — TO PERFECTION completely, perfectly
1480 — PERQUEER by heart, from memory; perfectly, exactly; clearly, distinctly → Sc.
1577 — SINCERELY in a pure, absolute, or perfect manner → obs.
1611 — TO THE NAIL to perfection
1691 — MATCHLY perfectly; well; mightily → Eng. dial. obs.
1725 — CLEAN AS A LEEK perfectly, completely, entirely → Sc.
.M18 — SLAP — SLAP OFF exactly, perfectly → sl.
1775 — PERQUIRE by heart, by memory; hence, perfectly, accurately, exactly → Sc. obs.
1790 — UP TO THE NOTCH to the proper standard; precisely; to perfection, perfectly; to the limit → Amer. dial.
..L18 — UP TO THE NINES to the highest degree, to perfection → sl.
1825 — PARFITLY perfectly; completely → Eng. dial.
1837 — TO THE NOTCH to the proper standard; precisely; to perfection, perfectly; to the limit → Amer. dial.
1839 — TO THE DOT precisely, completely, perfectly → Amer. dial.
.M19 — DOWN TO THE BRICKS perfectly, thoroughly, completely
.M19 — DOWN TO THE MUCK perfectly, thoroughly, completely
.M19 — PUFFICKLY perfectly → colloq.
.M19 — TO A MORAL perfectly → sl.
1891 — TO THE QUEEN’S TASTE perfectly, to perfection; exactly as would be desired → Amer. dial.
1897 — UP TO THE LAST NOTCH to the proper standard; precisely; to perfection, perfectly; to the limit → Amer. dial.
..L19 — CHAMPION excellently, perfectly
1929 — TO A TEE-WHITIE — TO A TEEWITY — TO A TEE-Y-TEE — TO A T-WITEY — TO A T-WYTY precisely, perfectly, exactly, entirely → Amer. dial.
1940 — TO A FARE-THEE-WELL to perfection → Amer. dial.
1944 — ON THE MONEY precisely, perfectly → colloq.
1944 — RIGHT ON THE MONEY precisely, perfectly → colloq.
1950 — TO THE KING’S TASTE perfectly, to perfection; exactly as would be desired → Amer. dial.
1965 — DOWN TO THE NOTCH to the proper standard; precisely; to perfection, perfectly; to the limit → Amer. dial.
1965 — RIGHT DOWN TO THE NOTCH to the proper standard; precisely; to perfection, perfectly; to the limit → Amer. dial.
1967 — TO THE BONE to perfection; to the last detail → Amer. dial.
1968 — TO THE BROWN to perfection → Amer. dial.
1970 — TO A BURN to perfection → Amer. dial.

NOUNS
1540 — ACCOMPLISHMENT a perfecting or making whole; the state of being perfect or complete; perfection → obs.
1551 — ABSOLUTENESS a being complete or finished; completeness; perfection → obs.
1552 — PERFECTURE perfection; maturity → obs.
1587 — ACCOMPLEMENT anything that completes or perfects, that adds grace or ornament to body or mind → obs.
1588 — SUMMITY the peak of perfection → obs.
1591 — IDEA a thing regarded as perfect in its kind → obs.
1592 — TOPGALLANT the peak of perfection
1812 — PERFECTIONATION a bringing to perfection; a being made perfect; later, perfection
1820 — BEAU-IDEAL the highest conceived or conceivable type of beauty or excellence of any kind; the perfect type or model
1832 — PERFECTATION a becoming or making something perfect or complete
1895 — NATURE maturity; perfection → Eng. dial.
1897 — FINISH a state of perfection → Amer. dial.
1905 — PARFITNESS perfectness; thorough adaptation → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1934 — LULU a perfect person or thing → students’ sl. (Bk.)
1939 — BEULAH LAND heaven or the Promised Land; a place of perfection or happiness; also used ironically → Amer. dial.
1942 — SOLID JABOO something perfect or ideal → US sl. (Bk.)
1948 — THE END the best; perfection, absolute excellence → US sl., chiefly jazz usage
1950 — THE TITS perfection, excellence, an ideal situation → sl.
1955 — BEULAH SHORE heaven or the Promised Land; a place of perfection or happiness; also used ironically → Amer. dial.
1970 — FAT CITY a place of perfection → US students’ sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
1591 — IDEA a person or thing regarded as perfect in its kind; the ideal realized in an individual → obs.
1602 — COCKALL a person regarded as the pre-eminent or perfect example of a particular type or category; the paragon → obs.
1849 — IDEAL a perfect person
1853 — A FAULTLESS CUBE a truly good man; an almost perfect man
1934 — LULU a perfect person or thing → students’ sl. (Bk.)
1980 — A TEN a young woman who is maximally sexually attractive; a perfect female specimen → US sl.

PHRASES
1910 — THAT’S THE HAMMER ideal, perfect, just what is wanted → sl.
1968 — IT’S DONE TO A BROWN it’s done to perfection → Amer. dial.
2007 — THE SUN SHINES OUT OF HIS ARSE he is wonderful, perfect, or the favourite → UK sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
1570 — PERFECTIONATE to bring to perfection; to make perfect or complete
1574 — LICK INTO SHAPE to bring to completion or perfection through discipline, hard work, etc. → colloq.
1592 — SUM to bring to completion or perfection; to consummate → obs.
1805 — PERFECTIONIZE to bring to perfection
1853 — UTOPIAIZE to plan or attempt to construct a perfect society
1900 — BLIND to know or do something perfectly → US students’ usage
1917 — EDZACT to perfect, to render exact; to make precisely right, to adjust precisely → Amer. dial.
1989 — NAIL to do something perfectly; to master → Amer. sl.