complete adjective
com·plete
The adjective form of complete is completive
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- adjective complete You use complete to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be. 3
- adjective complete You can use complete to emphasize that you are referring to the whole of something and not just part of it. 3
- adjective complete If something is complete, it contains all the parts that it should contain. 3
- adjective complete The complete works of a writer are all their books or poems published together in one book or as a set of books. 3
- adjective complete If something is complete, it has been finished. 3
- adjective complete You can use complete to emphasize that someone is skilled at all aspects of a particular activity and is therefore the best example of that kind of person. 3
- adjective complete having every necessary part or element; entire 3
- adjective complete ended; finished 3
- adjective complete thorough; absolute 3
- adjective complete perfect in quality or kind 3
- adjective complete (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 3
- adjective complete (of flowers) having sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels 3
- adjective complete expert or skilled; accomplished 3
- adjective complete lacking no component part; full; whole; entire 3
- adjective complete brought to a conclusion; ended; finished 3
- adjective complete accomplished; skilled; consummate 3
- adjective complete having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings. 1
- adjective complete finished; ended; concluded: a complete orbit. 1
- adjective complete having all the required or customary characteristics, skills, or the like; consummate; perfect in kind or quality: a complete scholar. 1
- adjective complete thorough; entire; total; undivided, uncompromised, or unmodified: a complete victory; a complete mess. 1
- adjective complete 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). 1
- adjective complete Also, completed. Football. (of a forward pass) caught by a receiver. 1
- adjective complete 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). 1
- adjective complete 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 5c). 1
- adjective complete (of persons) accomplished; skilled; expert. 1
- adjective complete 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. 1
- adjective complete lacking nothing 1
- adjective complete finished 1
- adjective complete 100 percent 1
- adjective complete accomplished 1
- adjective complete With all parts included; with nothing missing; full. 0
- adjective complete Finished; ended; concluded; completed. 0
- adjective complete Generic intensifier. 0
- adjective complete (analysis, Of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges. 0
- adjective complete (algebra, Of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound. 0
- adjective complete (mathematics, Of a category) in which all small limits exist. 0
- adjective complete (logic, of a proof system of a formal system) With respect to a given semantics, that any well-formed formula which is (semantically) valid must also be provable. 0
- adjective complete (computing theory) With respect to a complexity class, used of a problem that is in that class and such that every other problem in that class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space). 0