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com⋅pleat

[kuhm-pleet]
–adjective
highly skilled and accomplished in all aspects; complete; total: the compleat actor, at home in comedy and tragedy.

Origin:
1875–80; earlier sp. of complete, used phrasally in allusion to The Compleat Angler
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com·pleat   (kəm-plēt')   
adj.  
  1. Of or characterized by a highly developed or wide-ranging skill or proficiency: "The compleat speechwriter ... comes to anonymity from Harvard Law" (Israel Shenker).

  2. Being an outstanding example of a kind; quintessential: "Here was the compleat modern misfit: the very air appeared to poison him; his every step looked treacherous and hard won" (Stephen Schiff).


[Variant of complete.]
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