Incomplete
[ɪnkəm'pliːt] or ['ɪnkəm'plit]
Definition
(adj.) not complete or total; not completed; 'an incomplete account of his life'; 'political consequences of incomplete military success'; 'an incomplete forward pass' .
(adj.) not yet finished; 'his thesis is still incomplete'; 'an uncompleted play' .
Inputed by Josiah--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
(a.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower.
Editor: Murdoch
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Defective, deficient, imperfect, not complete.[2]. Unfinished, uncompleted, unaccomplished, unexecuted, not completed, left undone.
Checker: Nanette
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See COMPLETE]
Inputed by Enoch
Definition
adj. imperfect.—adv. Incomplete′ly.—ns. Incomplete′ness Incomplē′tion.
Editor: Nolan
Examples
- A picture of our family life would be incomplete without the household servants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I felt that we were incomplete before, and here is the explanation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I warn you that they are very incomplete. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This is a very bare and therefore a very incomplete way of putting the case. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Any activity with an aim implies a distinction between an earlier incomplete phase and later completing phase; it implies also intermediate steps. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To sit with her in sight was happiness, and the proper happiness, for early morning--serene, incomplete, but progressive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To this day their reconciliation is incomplete. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then he said, as if in a burst of irrepressible despair, 'I--I leave it all incomplete! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yes, a journal that is incomplete isn't of much use, but a journal properly kept is worth a thousand dollars--when you've got it done. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Moreover, in their fullness they represent the concentration and consummation of elements of good which are otherwise scattered and incomplete. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It has often been laid down that a meritorious invention is not to be defeated by something which rests in speculation or experiment, or which is rudimentary or incomplete. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The police lists are obviously incomplete and perhaps corrupt. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But the revolution is still incomplete. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Scattered here and there were statues finished and unfinished, some completed in marble, others incomplete in clay. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This implies that the situation as it stands is, either in fact or to us, incomplete and hence indeterminate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I really had not the energy to follow it up save in a very incomplete fashion, but it gave me a basis for some pleasing speculation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But there is a knowledge of the understanding which is incomplete and in motion always, because unable to rest in the subordinate ideas. Plato. The Republic.
- Nothing hastily done; nothing incomplete. Jane Austen. Emma.
- As we have already seen, thoughts just as thoughts are incomplete. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The latter addition came in an incomplete shape to Vienna. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Even now I cannot recollect, without passion, my reveries while the work was incomplete. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Without these microscopic beings life would become impossible, because death would be incomplete. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The first session of Congress held there was in 1800, while the building was still incomplete. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the Australian mammals, we see the process of diversification in an early and incomplete stage of development. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A collection of my trifling achievements would certainly be incomplete which contained no account of this very singular business. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And this change in size of the state--a change manifestly incomplete--has been accompanied by profound changes in its nature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is manifest that Italy was incomplete until it reached the Alps. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The starting point of any process of thinking is something going on, something which just as it stands is incomplete or unfulfilled. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Nolan