IMPERFECTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imperfectly mean? 

• IMPERFECTLY (adverb)
  The adverb IMPERFECTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an imperfect or faulty way

  Familiarity information: IMPERFECTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERFECTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an imperfect or faulty way

Synonyms:

amiss; imperfectly

Context example:

Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more

Antonym:

perfectly (in a perfect or faultless way)

Pertainym:

imperfect (not perfect; defective or inadequate)

 Context examples 

Nordau and Lombroso would so classify him, and quâ criminal he is of imperfectly formed mind.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The largest of the two pirate ships was commanded by a Japanese captain, who spoke a little Dutch, but very imperfectly.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Dr. Illingworth was imperfectly heard in part of his remarks on account of the strenuous opposition of the friends of the explorers.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had read Miss Crawford's note only once, and how to reply to anything so imperfectly understood was most distressing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I am imperfectly consoled for this disappointment by the sacred pledge, the perished flower.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Such," said Colonel Brandon, after a pause, "has been the unhappy resemblance between the fate of mother and daughter! and so imperfectly have I discharged my trust!"

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I was not sure whether he had seen what was only too obvious from my position, that the door of the safe was imperfectly closed, and that Milverton might at any moment observe it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With respect to Wickham, the travellers soon found that he was not held there in much estimation; for though the chief of his concerns with the son of his patron were imperfectly understood, it was yet a well-known fact that, on his quitting Derbyshire, he had left many debts behind him, which Mr. Darcy afterwards discharged.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Upon intratumoral administration, one shRNA unit with a perfectly matched sequence renders the suppression of STMN1 mRNA translation (mRNA sequestration and cleavage-independent degradation) while the other unit with an imperfectly matched sequence renders STMN1 mRNA degradation via RNase H-like cleavage (cleavage-dependent mRNA silencing).

(pbi-shRNA STMN1 Lipoplex, NCI Thesaurus)

He put this engine into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consulting it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)