| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | To bring to perfection or completion: polish, refine, smooth. Idioms: smooth off the rough edges. See BETTER. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Without imperfections or blemishes, as a line or contour: clean, regular. See BEAUTIFUL. 2. Lacking nothing essential or normal: complete, entire, full, intact, integral, whole. See PART. 3. In excellent condition: entire, flawless, good, intact, sound2, unblemished, unbroken, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unmarred, whole. See THRIVE. 4. Conforming to an ultimate form of perfection or excellence: exemplary, ideal, model, supreme. See GOOD. 5. Supremely excellent in quality or nature: absolute, consummate, faultless, flawless, impeccable, indefectible, unflawed. See GOOD. 6. Free from extraneous elements: absolute, plain, pure, sheer2, simple, unadulterated, undiluted, unmixed. See CLEAN. 7. Not more or less: complete, entire, full, good, round, whole. See PART, PRECISE. 8. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, plain, pure, sheer2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter2. Informal : flat-out, positive. Chiefly British : blooming. See BIG, LIMITED.
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