Meaning of INCOMPLETE
| Pronunciation: | | `inkum'pleet
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- [adj] not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass"
- [adj] (botany) lacking one or more of the four whorls of the complete flower--sepals or petals or stamens or pistils; "an incomplete flower"
- [adj] not yet finished; "his thesis is still incomplete"; "an uncompleted play"
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| | Synonyms: | | broken, half(a), partial, rudimentary, sketchy, uncomplete, uncompleted, unelaborated, unfinished |
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| | Antonyms: | | complete | | |
| | See Also: | | fractional | |
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| | Definition: | | \In`com*plete"\, a. [L. incompletus: cf. F.
incomplet. See {In-} not, and {Complete}.]
1. Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all
its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect;
defective.
A most imperfect and incomplete divine. --Milton.
2. (Bot.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of
a flower.
{Incomplete equation} (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms
are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one
or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to
0.
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| | Related Terms: | | adulterated, arrested, blemished, broken, callow, crude, damaged, defective, deficient, embryonic, erroneous, failing, fallible, faulty, found wanting, fractional, fragmentary, fragmented, hypoplastic, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inaccurate, inadequate, incompetent, inexact, infant, insufficient, lacking, makeshift, mediocre, missing, mixed, needing, not enough, not perfect, off, part, partial, patchy, piecemeal, rough, scant, scanty, scrappy, sectional, segmental, segmentary, short, shy, sketchy, too little, unaccomplished, underdeveloped, undeveloped, undone, unequal to, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, wanting |
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