complete
/kəmˈpliːt/ verb, adjective, noun
Forms completes completing completed completest completedst completeth completer compleat
- verb (ambitransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end. “He completed the assignment on time.”
- verb (transitive) To make whole or entire. “The last chapter completes the book nicely.”
- verb (poker) To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
- verb (informal, chiefly sports) to accomplish every significant achievement within a field
- adjective With all parts included; with nothing missing; full. “My life will be complete once I buy this new television.”
- adjective Finished; ended; concluded; completed. “When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.”
- adjective (attributive) Generic intensifier. “He is a complete bastard!”
- adjective (mathematical analysis, of a metric space or topological group) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
- adjective (ring theory, of a local ring) Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
- adjective (algebra, of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
- adjective (mathematics, of a category) In which all small limits exist.
- adjective (logic, of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
- noun A completed survey.
Synonyms
accomplish finish absolve conclude consummate discontinue do end finalize fullcome get through round off stay stop terminate wind up perfect top off entire total dispatch discharge nail fill out fill in make out accomplished arrant double-dyed everlasting
Antonyms
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).
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate. "Complete perfections." Milton.
- adjective Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.
- verb To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.
Etymology [L. completus, p. p. of complere to fill. See Full, a., and cf. Comply, Compline.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “complete”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details