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perfectible

/per-fek-tuh-buhl/US // pərˈfɛk tə bəl //UK // (pəˈfɛktəbəl) //

完美的,完美,完善的,完善

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.

Examples

  • We in our land of optimists like to believe our species is perfectible.

  • Neither markets nor government are perfectible; the best we're going to get is ones that work pretty well most of the time.

  • But this work is perfectible and it contains in its constitution even the principles of its perfectibility.

  • Man is not a perfectible animal; not on this side of eternity.

  • Scientific truths are infinitely perfectible, but never absolute.

  • He is perfectible, seeks after improvement, and shuns deterioration.

  • You pretend man's perfectible, that woman's got a capacity for disinterested self-sacrifice.