TO PERFECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does to perfection mean? 

• TO PERFECTION (adverb)
  The adverb TO PERFECTION has 1 sense:

1. in every detail

  Familiarity information: TO PERFECTION used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TO PERFECTION (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In every detail

Synonyms:

just right; to a T; to perfection; to the letter

Context example:

the new house suited them to a T

 Context examples 

The very first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open.

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

Merely looking at me with extravagant slyness, and not waiting for any reply, she continued, without drawing breath: There! If ever any scapegrace was trimmed and touched up to perfection, you are, Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You will have the chance to see people you’ve not seen in a long time and find it exciting, and you can give your work a second look to polish it to perfection.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He could easily conceive, that a Houyhnhnm, grew weak and heavy a few days before his death, or by some accident might hurt a limb; but that nature, who works all things to perfection, should suffer any pains to breed in our bodies, he thought impossible, and desired to know the reason of so unaccountable an evil.

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

The only inconvenience is, that none of these projects are yet brought to perfection; and in the mean time, the whole country lies miserably waste, the houses in ruins, and the people without food or clothes.

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

The division of labour to which he had referred was this:—Traddles cut the mutton into slices; Mr. Micawber (who could do anything of this sort to perfection) covered them with pepper, mustard, salt, and cayenne; I put them on the gridiron, turned them with a fork, and took them off, under Mr. Micawber's direction; and Mrs. Micawber heated, and continually stirred, some mushroom ketchup in a little saucepan.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)