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| Main Entry: |
arete
 [ahr-i-tey] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ridge |
| Synonyms: | crag, crest |
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| Main Entry: | merit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
| Synonyms: | arete, asset, benefit, caliber, credit, desert, dignity, excellence, excellency, good, goodness, honor, integrity, perfection, quality, stature, strong point, talent, value, virtue, worth, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | demerit, disadvantage, fault, weakness |
| Main Entry: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achieving, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, entireness, evolution, exactness, excellence, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finish, finishing, fulfillment, ideal, idealism, impeccability, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, perfectness, phoenix, precision, purity, quality, realization, ripeness, sublimity, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, wholeness |
| Antonyms: | damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, incompleteness, uselessness, worthlessness |
Example Sentences
- Arete does bring up a good point, though, in the second half of the post.
| Main Entry: | quality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | value, status |
| Synonyms: | arete, caliber, capacity, character, class, condition, distinction, excellence, excellency, footing, grade, group, kind, merit, perfection, place, position, preeminence, rank, repute, standing, state, station, stature, step, superbness, superiority, variety, virtue, worth |
| Main Entry: | superbness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence |
| Synonyms: | arete, class, distinction, eminence, excellency, fineness, goodness, greatness, high quality, merit, perfection, preeminence, purity, quality, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, worth, éclat |
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| Concept: | Perfection. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
perfection; perfectness; indefectibility; impeccancy, impeccability., pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of perfection; ne plus ultra; summit., cygne noir; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor., model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very prince of., masterpiece, superexcellence (goodness); transcendence (superiority).
-verbs
be perfect; transcend (be supreme)., bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete; put in trim (prepare); maturate.
-adjectives
perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Horace]; consummate (complete); finished., best (good); model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned, unparalleled (supreme); superhuman, divine; beyond all praise (approbation); sans peur et sans reproche.
-adverbs
to perfection; perfectly; ad unguem; clean, clean as a whistle.
-phrases
"let us go on unto perfection" [ Hebrews vi, 1]; "the perfection of art is to conceal art" [Quintilian].
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| Antonyms: | imperfection |
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