as in deficient
lacking some necessary part
an incomplete puzzle that has several pieces missing
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Recent Examples of incomplete
By making the chapters of Weapon X feel like incomplete fragments that are missing bits of information, the story is unsettling.
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Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
Alone, a Whiskey Sour without an egg white is a serviceable, if incomplete, cocktail.
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Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
20 June 2026
Much seems to remain incomplete about that scene.
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Kansas City Star,
20 June 2026
The long and painful rehab would have interfered with his writing; the dread of leaving behind an incomplete manuscript outweighed the benefit of a few extra months.
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Griffin Dunne,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
Alone, a Whiskey Sour without an egg white is a serviceable, if incomplete, cocktail.
—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
20 June 2026
Much seems to remain incomplete about that scene.
—
Kansas City Star,
20 June 2026
The long and painful rehab would have interfered with his writing; the dread of leaving behind an incomplete manuscript outweighed the benefit of a few extra months.
—
Griffin Dunne,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomplete
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About 220,000 need major repair or replacement, and 41,677 are rated poor, also called structurally deficient.
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What is often misunderstood is that any of these virtuous behaviors can manifest as deficient vices when underdeveloped and as excess vices when strong but unsupported by the other 10 character dimensions, as evidenced by Steve Jobs.
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Panic inside buildings Videos circulating on social media showed people rushing out of buildings in the capital, while some users reported partial collapses and damage to structures.
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The blaze ignited Wednesday at the nearly 500,000-square-foot cold storage facility run by a company called Lineage, beginning on the roof, which caused a partial collapse and moved the flames into the building, where 85 million pounds of food are stored.
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Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer in your 12th House of Rest and Reflection, stirring old worries, unfinished conversations, and behind-the-scenes doubts.
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Now an unfinished tribute to the founding of our country.
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That hypothesis remains tentative; the fossil record is fragmentary enough that ruling out opportunistic or scavenging behavior is difficult.
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Most of these ancient homes have long since returned to the soil, leaving archaeologists to piece together their stories from fragmentary evidence.
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The plume is made of three things: (1) steam - a lot of it; (2) ash - fine, fragmental pieces of silicate glass, not stuff from your backyard BBQ (which is burned carbon); (3) volcanic gases like CO2, SO2, H2S and others.
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This would generate a cloud of hot gases and fragmental volcanic material, which could then move downslope gravitationally.
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“Incomplete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomplete. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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