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8. training, teaching, educating, education, preparing, preparation; drilling, exercising, disciplining, practicing; nurturing, fostering, rearing; cultivating, cultivation, breeding, habituating, acclimatizing, adapting, inuring.
perfectionism, n. fastidiousness, criticalness, overcriticalness, hypercriticalness, overdemandingness, demandingness, exactingness; fussiness, particularity, overparticularness, daintiness, finicalness, finicality, Inf. pernicketiness, meticulousness, meticulosity; minuteness, detailedness, fineness, niceness, thoroughness, completeness; painstakingness, care, carefulness, conscientiousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, punctiliousness; exactness, preciseness, precision, accuracy, accurateness, correctness; rigidness, rigidity, strictness, severeness, severity, rigorousness, rigorism.
perfectionist, n. 1. precisionist, pedant, formalist, academic, purist.
2. stickler, Inf. fuddy-duddy, fussbudget, SI. grind. -adj. 3. scrupulous, meticulous, conscientious, exacting, precise, punctilious; discriminating, discriminative, selective, picky, Inf. choosy; fastidious, particular.
perfectly, adv. 1. ideally, admirably, inimitably, incomparably, preeminently; superlatively, supremely, sublimely, infinitely; superbly, exquisitely, extraordinarily; faultlessly, flawlessly, spotlessly.
2. completely, entirely, purely, fully, plenarily; throughout, altogether, to the nth degree; totally, wholly, consummately, absolutely, thoroughly, utterly, quite; positively, unconditionally, implicitly, undoubtedly, indubitably; unequivocally, unambiguously, clearly, explicitly, unmistakably, officially; categorically, surely, certainly, infallibly, conclusively; actually, really, truly, verily, assuredly; essentially, fundamentally, radically.
perfervid, adj. intense, fervid, impassioned, keen, ardent, zealous, Inf. gung ho; heated, fervent, feverish, inflamed, white-hot; fiery, raging, blazing, burning, flaming; seething, simmering, boiling; earnest, eager, animated, excited, passionate; high-spirited, wrought-up, overwrought, enthusiastic.
perfidious, adj. treacherous, traitorous, treasonous; faithless, false, disloyal, dutiless, untrue, unfaithful; deceitful, dishonest, insidious, false-hearted, knavish; double-dealing, dissembling, Janus-faced, two-faced, hypocritical; conniving, sneaking, scheming, designing, shifty, sneaky; unscrupulous, dishonorable, un-conscienced, corrupt.
perfidy, n. 1. treachery, traitorousness, Iscariotism, quislingism; faithlessness, unfaithfulness, disloyalty, perfidiousness, infidelity; false-heartedness, duplicity, falseness, guile, deceit; dutilessness, recreancy, defection, desertion, apostasy, resilement.
2. treason, betrayal, Judas kiss, SI. stab in the back, SI. sellout; double-dealing, SI. double-crossing, SI. double-cross; breach, breach of faith, bad faith, Punic faith, Latin, mala fides; foul play, dirty trick, dirty work.
perforate, v. 1. make a hole in, hole, honeycomb, bore, drill, punch, pink, puncture; pierce, stab, lan-cinate, prick, stick; cut, slit, slot, split, gash, slash.
2. penetrate, pass into, enter, permeate, pervade, overspread.
-adj. 3. perforated, bored, drilled, holed, holey, honeycombed, punched, pinked; punctured, pierced, stabbed, lancinated, pricked, stuck; cut, slit, slotted,
perforation, n. hole, bore, drill or punch hole; puncture, mark, prick; cut, slit, split, gash, slash; opening, gap, space, slot, aperture, eyelet.
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