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Synonyms for incomplete
ˌɪn kəmˈplitin·com·plete

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. incompleteadjective

    Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.

    Synonyms:
    underdone, unwhole

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. incomplete, uncompleteadjective

    not complete or total; not completed

    "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass"

    Synonyms:
    uncomplete, uncompleted

    Antonyms:
    good, absolute, realized, self-contained, sheer(a), full-clad, all, all-or-nothing, full-scale, utter, thorough, full, full-blown, full-dress, complete, fleshed out, completed, right-down, allover, thoroughgoing, sound, total, finished, dead(a), exhaustive, clean, realised, out-and-out(a), rank(a), all-or-none, all-out, stand-alone, hearty, accomplished, downright

  2. incomplete, uncompletedadjective

    not yet finished

    "his thesis is still incomplete"; "an uncompleted play"

    Synonyms:
    uncomplete, uncompleted

    Antonyms:
    good, downright, sound, absolute, full-blown, realized, completed, finished, out-and-out(a), all-out, exhaustive, stand-alone, full-scale, hearty, allover, thoroughgoing, rank(a), accomplished, thorough, self-contained, all-or-none, sheer(a), full-clad, clean, dead(a), realised, utter, full-dress, all-or-nothing, full, fleshed out, total, complete, all, right-down

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. partial

    Submitted by anonymous on April 6, 2021  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. incompleteadjective

    Synonyms:
    defective, deficient, imperfect, not complete

  2. incompleteadjective

    Synonyms:
    unfinished, uncompleted, unaccomplished, unexecuted, not completed, left undone

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. incompleteadjective

    Synonyms:
    unfinished, defective, imperfect, deficient, partial, inchoate

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How to use incomplete in a sentence?

  1. Liz Cheney:

    We can not be satisfied with incomplete answers or half truths, and we can not surrender to President Trump's efforts to hide what happened.

  2. Tamara Johnson:

    Is putting together the puzzle of my life. I was almost done when I realized I had lost a piece. Without that piece, my life incomplete. And sadly, I may never find it again.....

  3. Robert Browning:

    Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

  4. Ritchie Torres:

    The American Families Plan is incomplete without a permanent child tax credit, we are in the midst of an FDR moment, which comes only once a century.If we let our FDR moment pass us by, without making the child tax credit permanent, we will live to regret it.

  5. Erich Fromm:

    Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.


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