complete

¹com·plete

adj \kəm-ˈplēt\

com·plet·ercom·plet·est

Definition of COMPLETE

1

a : having all necessary parts, elements, or steps <a complete diet> b : having all four sets of floral organs c of a subject or predicate : including modifiers, complements, or objects

2

: brought to an end : concluded <a complete period of time>

3

: highly proficient <a complete artist>

4

a : fully carried out : thorough <a complete renovation> b : total, absolute <complete silence> c of a football pass : legally caught

5

of insect metamorphosis : characterized by the occurrence of a pupal stage between the motile immature stages and the adult — compare incomplete 1b

6

of a metric space : having the property that every Cauchy sequence of elements converges to a limit in the space

— complete·ly adverb

— com·plete·ness noun

— com·ple·tive \-ˈplē-tiv\ adjective

— complete with

: made complete by the inclusion of <a birthday cake complete with candles>

Examples of COMPLETE

1. He spoke in complete sentences.
2. They sat in complete silence.

Origin of COMPLETE

Middle English complet, from Latin completus, from past participle of complēre

First Known Use: 14th century

Related to COMPLETE

Synonyms: compleat, comprehensive, entire, full, grand, intact, integral, perfect, plenary, total, whole

Antonyms: imperfect, incomplete, partial

Related Words: unabridged, uncut, undiminished; all-out, exhaustive, extensive, maximal; full-blooded, full-blown, full-bore, full-fledged, full-on, full-out, full-scale

Near Antonyms: abbreviated, abridged, cut, diminished, reduced

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Rhymes with COMPLETE

accrete, aesthete, afreet, athlete, backbeat, backseat, backstreet, bedsheet, bench seat, big beat, bolete, box pleat, box seat, break beat, broadsheet, browbeat, buckwheat, bystreet, call sheet, car seat, cheat sheet, clipsheet, cloud street, cold feet, compete, compleat, conceit, concrete, crabmeat, crib sheet, deadbeat, dead heat, dead meat, deceit, defeat, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, disseat, downbeat, drop seat, drumbeat, dutch treat, effete, elite, en suite, entreat, escheat, excrete, facete, Fleet Street, fly sheet, forcemeat, foresheet, four-peat, gamete, groundsheet, hard wheat, heartbeat, heat-treat, helpmeet, hoofbeat, hot seat, house seat, ice sheet, ill-treat, jump seat, kick pleat, love seat, mainsheet, Main Street, maltreat, mesquite, mincemeat, mistreat, offbeat, Ossete, petite, pink sheet, preheat, rap sheet, receipt, recheat, red heat, red meat, red wheat, regreet, repeat, replete, retreat, scratch sheet, secrete, side street, slip-sheet, soft wheat, spreadsheet, stand treat, swap meet, sweetmeat, tear sheet, terete, three-peat, through street, time sheet, unmeet, unseat, upbeat, vegete, volkslied, white heat