complete
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complete/kəmˈpliːt/
▶adjective
- 1 having all the necessary or appropriate parts; entire.
■ (complete with) having as an additional feature.
- 2 having run its full course; finished.
- 3 to the greatest extent or degree; total: a complete surprise.
- 4 (also compleat) chiefly humorous fully competent in an activity; consummate.
- 1 finish making or doing.
■ Brit. conclude the sale of a property.
- 2 provide with the items necessary to make (something) complete.
■ write the required information on (a form).
– derivatives
completeness noun.
completeness noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. complet, or L. complet-, complere ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + plere ‘fill’.
'complete' also found in these Oxford entries:
about-turn
- accomplish
- almighty
- apocalypse
- archive
- arrant
- attempt
- backgammon
- black
- blank
- blithering
- button
- carte blanche
- catalogue
- chaos
- chaotic
- Cheyne-Stokes breathing
- circuit
- clear
- cold turkey
- compleat
- complement
- complementary
- compline
- comply
- condemn
- consist
- consummate
- count
- course
- crashing
- creature
- crock
- cycle
- dead
- deadhead
- deadly
- deceptively
- deep-dyed
- despair
- diakinesis
- diametrical
- digenean
- diploid
- disaster
- do
- downright
- end point
- Eskimo roll
