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COMPLETE
complete
(adjective) having every necessary or normal part or component or step; “a complete meal”; “a complete wardrobe”; “a complete set of the Britannica”; “a complete set of china”; “a complete defeat”; “a complete accounting”
complete, concluded, ended, over, all over, terminated
(adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion; “the harvesting was complete”; “the affair is over, ended, finished”; “the abruptly terminated interview”
complete, arrant(a), consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; “an arrant fool”; “a complete coward”; “a consummate fool”; “a double-dyed villain”; “gross negligence”; “a perfect idiot”; “pure folly”; “what a sodding mess”; “stark staring mad”; “a thorough nuisance”; “a thoroughgoing villain”; “utter nonsense”; “the unadulterated truth”
complete, consummate
(adjective) perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities; “a complete gentleman”; “consummate happiness”; “a consummate performance”
accomplished, complete
(adjective) highly skilled; “an accomplished pianist”; “a complete musician”
complete
(verb) bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements; “A child would complete the family”
complete, finish
(verb) come or bring to a finish or an end; “He finished the dishes”; “She completed the requirements for her Master’s Degree”; “The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours”
complete, fill out, fill in, make out
(verb) write all the required information onto a form; “fill out this questionnaire, please!”; “make out a form”
complete, nail
(verb) complete a pass
dispatch, discharge, complete
(verb) complete or carry out; “discharge one’s duties”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)
(ambitransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
Synonyms: accomplish, finish, Thesaurus:end
(transitive) To make whole or entire.
Synonyms: consummate, perfect, top off
(poker) To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
Usage notes
• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See English catenative verbs
Adjective
complete (comparative completer or more complete, superlative completest or most complete)
With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
Synonyms: entire, total, Thesaurus:entire
Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
Synonyms: concluded, done, Thesaurus:finished
Generic intensifier.
Synonyms: downright, utter, Thesaurus:total
(analysis, of a metric space) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
(algebra, of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
(math, of a category) In which all small limits exist.
(logic, of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
• Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed that Principia could not be both consistent and complete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such as Principia), there exists a statement G that essentially reads, "The statement G cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: if G is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and if G is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.WP
(computing theory, of a problem) That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).
Antonyms
• incomplete
Hyponyms
• bicomplete
• cocomplete
• feature-complete
• NP-complete
Noun
complete (plural completes)
A completed survey.
Anagrams
• Lecompte
Source: Wiktionary
Com"plete", a. Etym: [L. completus, p. p. of complere to fill. See Full, a., and cf. Comply, Compline.]
1. Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate. "Complete perfections." Milton. Ye are complete in him. Col. ii. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.
2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete. This course of vanity almost complete. Prior.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.
Syn.
– See Whole.
Com*plete", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Completed; p. pr. & vb. n. Completing.]
Definition: To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education. Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence. Milton. And, to complete her bliss, a fool for mate. Pope.
Syn.
– To perform; execute; terminate; conclude; finish; end; fill up; achieve; realize; effect; consummate; accomplish; effectuate; fulfill; bring to pass.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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