IMPERFECT TENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imperfect tense mean? 

• IMPERFECT TENSE (noun)
  The noun IMPERFECT TENSE has 1 sense:

1. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

  Familiarity information: IMPERFECT TENSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERFECT TENSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

continuous tense; imperfect; imperfect tense; progressive; progressive tense

Hypernyms ("imperfect tense" is a kind of...):

tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imperfect tense"):

present progressive; present progressive tense (a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance)

past progressive; past progressive tense (a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past)

future progressive; future progressive tense (a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future)