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Definition of imperfect : 1. Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.
2. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
3. The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.
4. To make imperfect.
5. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

Synonyms:

light, corrupted, watery, debile, liberal, broken, feeble, unaccented, liberalist, weakly, frail, sapless, imperfect tense, fallible, delicate, continuous tense, rickety, corrupt, decrepit, weak, progressive tense, human, better, washy, fragile, faint, infirm, progressive

flawed, blotched, discolored, flecked, disfigured, splotched, scuffed, blistered, stained, specked, distorted, tainted, spoiled, scraped, impure, chipped, pockmarked, spotted, tarnished, abraded, damaged, marked, fractured, scored, scabbed, freckled, hacked, cracked, nicked, defective, defaced, marred, slit, scratched, notched, blemished, gashed, scarred, deformed

faulty, incomplete, second-rate, inadequate, deficient

obscene, immoral, slovenly, sordid, unclean, dirty

insufficient, lacking

Usage examples:

• If what I send be, as under present circumstances it must be, imperfect, you will excuse it, as being done near twelve years ago. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)", Edmund Burke.
• Nevertheless, they are only imperfect accusatives. - "The English Language", Robert Gordon Latham.
• As far as my strength allowed, I have finished the work I had to do as I went along; and now I leave it, all imperfect as it has been, in His hands. - "Catherine Booth A Sketch", Colonel Mildred Duff.