imperfect russian

• непо́лный

  incomplete, imperfect, not full

• несоверше́нный

  incomplete

  imperfect / imperfective (verbs)

• дефе́ктный

  imperfect, faulty

• ло́манный

  broken, fractured

  broken, imperfect, halting

  jerky, uneven, choppy

• пережива́ть

  worry or be upset (imperfective only)

  experience, go through

  suffer, endure

  survive, outlast, outlive

• ступа́ть

  to tread to step on step

  (imperfective only) to leave

• осно́вываться

  to be based (imperfective only)

  to settle, to settle down, to stay, to be founded on

• несоверше́нство

  imperfection

• недоде́лка

  imperfection, incompleteness

• расска́зываться

  to be told (imperfective only)

• неполнота́

  incompleteness, imperfection

• огре́х

  gap, fault, flaw, imperfection

• дефе́ктность

  defectiveness, imperfection, faultiness

• воскреша́вший

  resurrecting, reviving, restoring (past active imperfective participle)

• выка́пывавший

  digging out, excavating (past imperfective active participle)

• законтракто́вывавший

  who/which was contracting, contracting (past imperfective)

• недослы́шанный

  misheard, imperfectly heard, partially heard

• обжа́ривавшийся

  that was being fried, having been fried (imperfective aspect)

• отшлифо́вывавший

  polishing (past, imperfective), that was polishing, having polished

• переходи́вший

  that was crossing, that was passing, having crossed (imperfective past active participle)

• притачивавший

  stitching on, attaching by stitching (past active imperfective participle of 'притачивать')

• увози́вший

  carrying away, taking away, transporting (past active imperfective participle)

• ускоря́вшийся

  accelerating (past imperfective), that was accelerating

Examples

• Быть счастли́вым не значит, что всё безупречно, а, скорее, что вы реши́ли не замеча́ть недоста́тков.Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect, but rather that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
• Можно вообще э́того не де́лать, чем де́лать неидеально.You may as well not do it at all than do it imperfectly.