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complete

comp·lete

UK/kəmˈpliːt/ US/kɒmˈpliːt/ common

adjective

1.

having every necessary or normal part or component or step

  • “a complete meal”
  • “a complete wardrobe”
  • “a complete set pf the Britannica”
  • “a complete set of china”
  • “a complete defeat”
  • “a complete accounting”
2.

perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities

  • “a complete gentleman”
  • “consummate happiness”
  • “a consummate performance”
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3.

having all four whorls or principal parts--sepals and petals and stamens and carpels (or pistils)

  • “complete flowers”
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4.

highly skilled

  • “an accomplished pianist”
  • “a complete musician”
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5.

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 thoroughgoing villain”
  • “utter nonsense”
  • “the unadulterated truth”
6.

having come or been brought to a conclusion

  • “the harvesting was complete”
  • “the affair is over, ended, finished”
  • “the abruptly terminated interview”

verb

1.

come or bring to a finish or an end

  • “He finished the dishes”
  • “She completed the requirements for her Master”
  • “;”
Synonyms
2.

cause to go into a solution

  • “The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water”
3.

complete or carry out

  • “discharge one”
4.

complete a pass

Synonyms
5.

write all the required information onto a form

  • “fill out this questionnaire, please!”
  • “make out a form”

Origin

From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“to fill up, to complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“to fill, to fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).

Phrases

  • complete abortion
  • complete and utter
  • complete androgen insensitivity syndrome
  • complete angle
  • complete bipartite graph
  • complete blood count
  • complete game
  • complete the square
  • tab complete

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