complete
having all the required or customary characteristics, skills, or the like; consummate; perfect in kind or quality: a complete scholar.
thorough; entire; total; undivided, uncompromised, or unmodified: a complete victory;a complete mess.
Grammar. having all modifying or complementary elements included: The complete subject of “The dappled pony gazed over the fence” is “The dappled pony.”: Compare simple (def. 20).
Also completed. Football. (of a forward pass) caught by a receiver.
Logic. (of a set of axioms) such that every true proposition able to be formulated in terms of the basic ideas of a given system is deducible from the set.: Compare incomplete (def. 4b).
Engineering. noting a determinate truss having the least number of members required to connect the panel points so as to form a system of triangles.: Compare incomplete (def. 3), redundant (def. 7c).
(of persons) accomplished; skilled; expert.
Mathematics.
of or relating to an algebraic system, as a field with an order relation defined on it, in which every set of elements of the system has a least upper bound.
of or relating to a set in which every fundamental sequence converges to an element of the set.: Compare fundamental sequence.
(of a lattice) having the property that every subset has a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound.
to make whole or entire: I need three more words to complete the puzzle.
to make perfect: His parting look of impotent rage completed my revenge.
to bring to an end; finish: Has he completed his new novel yet?
to consummate.
Football. to execute (a forward pass) successfully: He completed 17 passes in 33 attempts.
Origin of complete
1usage note For complete
Other words for complete
1 | unbroken, unimpaired, undivided |
3 | developed |
11 | consummate, perfect, accomplish, achieve |
13 | terminate, conclude, close |
Opposites for complete
Other words from complete
- com·plet·a·ble, adjective
- com·plet·ed·ness, noun
- com·plete·ly, adverb
- com·plete·ness, noun
- com·plet·er, noun
- com·ple·tive, adjective
- com·ple·tive·ly, adverb
- half-com·plet·ed, adjective
- pre·com·plete·ness, noun
- qua·si-com·plete, adjective
- sub·com·plete, adjective
- sub·com·plete·ness, noun
- un·com·plet·a·ble, adjective
- un·com·plete, adjective
- un·com·plete·ness, noun
- un·com·plet·ed, adjective
- well-com·plet·ed, adjective
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How to use complete in a sentence
She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze | Lizzie Crocker | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTCompleted in 1953 and composed with standard line breaks and punctuation, the book was completely ignored upon submission.
The children found a new family after a home study was done and the adoption was completed in court.
The differences in overall victimization are driven mainly by the incidences of completed rape.
College Girls Are Less Likely to Be Raped Than Non-Students | Brandy Zadrozny | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNon-students (at 3.1 per 1,000) were 1.5 times more likely to be a victim of a completed rape than students (2.0 per 1,000).
College Girls Are Less Likely to Be Raped Than Non-Students | Brandy Zadrozny | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
When the reserve transfers are completed checks in transit can no longer count as reserves.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsThat, too, is a process which in this changing new world of ours can never be completed.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThis important rite was just completed, when a packet was put into Ripperda's hand from Spain.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterNot having completed the loading of his gun, Tom hastily rode behind a dense bush, and concealed himself as well as he could.
Hunting the Lions | R.M. BallantyneA month later, he turned sharp round, ere half a morning walk was completed, and stumped back to the house.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for complete
/ (kəmˈpliːt) /
having every necessary part or element; entire
ended; finished
(prenominal) thorough; absolute: he is a complete rogue
perfect in quality or kind: he is a complete scholar
(of a logical system) constituted such that a contradiction arises on the addition of any proposition that cannot be deduced from the axioms of the system: Compare consistent (def. 5)
(of flowers) having sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels
archaic expert or skilled; accomplished
to make whole or perfect
to end; finish
(in land law) to pay any outstanding balance on a contract for the conveyance of land in exchange for the title deeds, so that the ownership of the land changes hands
American football (of a quarterback) to make a forward pass successfully
Origin of complete
1Derived forms of complete
- completely, adverb
- completeness, noun
- completer, noun
- completion, noun
- completive, adjective
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