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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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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