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incomplete

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ɪn.kəmˈpliːt//

Not complete; not finished.

adjective

  1. 1

    Not complete; not finished.

    Stefania handed in her writing incomplete.

    an incomplete jigsaw puzzle

    My knowledge on the subject is incomplete.

    He considers that his life would be incomplete if not for his children.

  2. 2

    Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.

Etymology

From Middle English incomplete, incompleet, from Late Latin incomplētus, from in- (“un-; not”) + complētus (“complete”), equivalent to in- (“not”) + complete.

noun

  1. 1

    Something incomplete. A multipart file posted to a Usenet newsgroup that is incomplete and thus unusable.

  2. 2

    Something incomplete. A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.

  3. 3

    A designation of being incomplete.

    He got four incompletes out of five courses last semester.

Forms

plural
incompletes
comparative
more incomplete
superlative
most incomplete
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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