English Explanatory Dictionary

complete

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
  2. To make whole or entire.
  3. To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
adj
  1. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
  2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
  3. Generic intensifier.
  4. In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
  5. Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
  6. In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
  7. In which all small limits exist.
  8. In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
  9. That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).
noun
  1. A completed survey.

Pronunciation

/kəmˈpliːt/ /kɒmˈpliːt/ en-us-complete.ogg

Word forms

complete completes completing completed no-table-tags glossary completest completedst completeth compleat more complete completer most complete

Etymology

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).

Synonyms

accomplish finish absolve complete conclude consummate discontinue do end finalize fullcome get through round off stay stop terminate wind up perfect top off entire total whole holo- one overall concluded done completed ended finished in the books downright utter abject frightful absolute arrant categoric categorical decided full full-blown full-bore full-on mere outright out-and-out precious proper pure stark rank regular right root and branch sheer straight-out thorough thoroughgoing unadulterated

Antonyms

incomplete

Related words

accomplish complement completion completive comply deplete replete

Derived words

autocomplete completability completable completement recomplete tab complete complete the square AI-complete complete abortion complete androgen insensitivity syndrome complete and utter complete angle complete bipartite graph complete blood count complete game complete graph complete internal reflection complete lattice completely complete measure completeness complete package complete partial order complete protein complete street complete with completion completism completist functionally complete noncomplete overcomplete P-complete precomplete quasicompletesemicomplete semi-complete subcomplete Turing-complete Turing complete uncomplete undercomplete
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