PERFECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perfected mean? 

• PERFECTED (adjective)
  The adjective PERFECTED has 1 sense:

1. (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed

  Familiarity information: PERFECTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERFECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed

Context example:

a graceful but not yet fully perfected literary style

Similar:

formed (having or given a form or shape)

 Context examples 

When I loved her—even then, my love would have been incomplete, without your sympathy. I had it, and it was perfected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Body and brain, his was a more perfected mechanism.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But even if the tech gets perfected, automakers are still struggling with the current limitations of electronic vehicles, namely their limited range per charge.

(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)

Mr. Bertram's acquaintance with him had begun at Weymouth, where they had spent ten days together in the same society, and the friendship, if friendship it might be called, had been proved and perfected by Mr. Yates's being invited to take Mansfield in his way, whenever he could, and by his promising to come; and he did come rather earlier than had been expected, in consequence of the sudden breaking-up of a large party assembled for gaiety at the house of another friend, which he had left Weymouth to join.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Whether Zambo can at last take these letters to the river, or whether I shall myself in some miraculous way carry them back with me, or, finally, whether some daring explorer, coming upon our tracks with the advantage, perhaps, of a perfected monoplane, should find this bundle of manuscript, in any case I can see that what I am writing is destined to immortality as a classic of true adventure.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)