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INCOMPLETE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not complete or total; not completed
Example:
an incomplete forward pass
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
broken (lacking a part or parts)
half (partial)
neither (not either; not one or the other)
partial (being or affecting only a part; not total)
rudimentary (being in the earliest stages of development)
sketchy; unelaborated (giving only major points; lacking completeness)
uncompleted (not caught or not caught within bounds)
Also:
fractional (constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety)
Attribute:
completeness (the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed)
Antonym:
complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)
Derivation:
incompleteness (the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not yet finished
Example:
an uncompleted play
Synonyms:
incomplete; uncompleted
Classified under:
Similar:
unfinished (not brought to an end or conclusion)
Derivation:
incompleteness (the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect)
Context examples:
Types of brain malformations include missing parts of the brain, abnormal growth of certain parts of the brain, and incomplete division of the brain.
(Brain Malformations, NIH)
Molecules or ions formed by the incomplete one-electron reduction of oxygen.
(Oxygen radical, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
An incomplete description of the medical and treatment history of one or more patients.
(Anecdotal report, NCI Dictionary)
A collection of my trifling achievements would certainly be incomplete which contained no account of this very singular business.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I warn you that they are very incomplete.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When I loved her—even then, my love would have been incomplete, without your sympathy. I had it, and it was perfected.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Second, because, as my narrative will make, alas! too evident, my discoveries were incomplete.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Of course, our knowledge of red supergiants remains incomplete, and this is still a work in progress, so a surprise can still happen.”
(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)
Intermittent, incomplete or complete paralysis with or without tremors to any of the organs or body parts innervated by the phrenic nerve.
(Phrenic Nerve Palsy, NCI Thesaurus)
Being or representing an incomplete extent of a single entity.
(Partial, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
