unperfected

Not yet polished

Unperfected means not brought to completion or full development.

A legal claim or security interest that is unperfected has not met all formal requirements to be fully enforceable: The lien remained unperfected because they never filed the paperwork.

More broadly, anything left unfinished or unrefined: an unperfected draft, unperfected skills.

incomplete

unfinished

Not yet complete

unrefined · rudimentary · sketchy · tentative · provisional · preliminary · rough · draft · half-done · unformed

potential

unrealized

Not made actual

promising · budding · emerging · raw · unripe · green · nascent · embryonic · germinal · fledgling

flawed

blemished

Having visible defects

tarnished · impaired · compromised · deficient · cracked · warped · distorted · dented · scratched · flecked

Opposites
completion/refinement

unperfectedperfected

Made without flaw

finished · completed · polished · perfect · refined

legal/technical status

unperfectedperfected

Made without flaw

secured · recorded · filed · registered · formalized

Family

perfect, imperfect, perfection, perfected, imperfection, perfecting, perfectionist, imperfectly, imperfections

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