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单词 incomplete
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Definition of incomplete in English:

incomplete

adjective ɪnkəmˈpliːtˌɪnkəmˈplit
  • 1Not having all the necessary or appropriate parts.

    incomplete carvings of cattle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet anyone who has any knowledge of international law will know that it is an incomplete and an imperfect system.
    • For this reason, every history of the Second World War is necessarily fractured and incomplete.
    • Yet although Katz's book is necessarily incomplete in what it can cover, it lives up to its goals remarkably well.
    • He has received incomplete relief of this symptom despite appropriate conventional medication.
    • There were no records for clients who moved in and out of the hostels and documents about residents' purses were incomplete.
    • A motion of adjournment was passed, on the ground that those voting by proxy had done so with incomplete information.
    • We are witnessing a compelling, but necessarily incomplete, account of what went on.
    • The skeptics argue that the vision of freedom embodied in the rights tradition is for this reason partial and incomplete.
    • It frequently has to make its assessment on the basis of fragmented, incomplete and confused information.
    • Exceptions are evidence that the explanation is wrong somehow, or incomplete.
    • It is necessarily too anecdotal and incomplete with respect to the immigrant experience for that.
    • This resulted in some partial or incomplete responses relative to these issues.
    • This is where I realized that my childhood, and indeed my life so far, has been woefully incomplete.
    • I think if I didn't have any I'd make them up, otherwise my life would feel incomplete.
    • He felt incomplete and therefore wants a more complete experience at the other bookend of his enjoyable Rangers career.
    • The reader too draws back and shares his incomplete understanding along with his respect for his mother.
    • Another tells of the time when she saw a large and promising box under the tree, only to find it was an incomplete set of BhS glass tumblers.
    • If you're looking for someone to complete you, then by definition, you're incomplete.
    • A man's life, we are told, is incomplete unless and until he has tasted love, poverty and war.
    • Without the confidence to become what he is meant to be, a man remains incomplete.
    Synonyms
    deficient, insufficient, imperfect, defective, partial, patchy, sketchy, fragmentary, fragmented, scrappy, bitty
    lacking, wanting, not entire, not whole, not total, abridged, shortened
    qualified, restricted
    1. 1.1 Not full or finished.
      the analysis remains incomplete
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That the problems continue shows incomplete and inadequate system planning and implementation.
      • This is useful when there is a need to comment on a shoddy or incomplete job or task.
      • Please provide us with a final account for work done adjusted to take account of defective and incomplete work.
      • He is finishing his father's incomplete story The Lizard of Oz, according to the New York Times.
      • My answer is mumbled and incomplete and leaves me and my questioner unsatisfied.
      Synonyms
      unfinished, uncompleted, not finished, not completed, half-finished, half-done, half-completed, partially finished, partially complete, partial, not concluded
      unaccomplished, undone, unexecuted, unperformed

Derivatives

  • incompleteness

  • noun ɪnkəmˈpliːtnəsˌɪnkəmˈplitnəs
    • His preference for working on cardboard with quick-fire liquid paints, and for leaving large expanses of this cardboard untouched, adds to the sense of incompleteness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But what fascinated and drew me in was the incompleteness.
      • In Lacanian theory it is not some fundamental sexual imperative that motivates desire, but the loss of the real, which leaves an incompleteness, a lack.
      • A feeling of incompleteness, of a job half done.
      • As such, expression in psychoanalytic theory always registers the subject's lack, incompleteness, or status as split.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin incompletus, from Latin in- 'not' + completus 'filled, finished' (see complete).

 
 

Definition of incomplete in US English:

incomplete

adjectiveˌinkəmˈplētˌɪnkəmˈplit
  • 1Not having all the necessary or appropriate parts.

    the records are patchy and incomplete
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It frequently has to make its assessment on the basis of fragmented, incomplete and confused information.
    • He felt incomplete and therefore wants a more complete experience at the other bookend of his enjoyable Rangers career.
    • There were no records for clients who moved in and out of the hostels and documents about residents' purses were incomplete.
    • A motion of adjournment was passed, on the ground that those voting by proxy had done so with incomplete information.
    • This resulted in some partial or incomplete responses relative to these issues.
    • Yet although Katz's book is necessarily incomplete in what it can cover, it lives up to its goals remarkably well.
    • This is where I realized that my childhood, and indeed my life so far, has been woefully incomplete.
    • If you're looking for someone to complete you, then by definition, you're incomplete.
    • Yet anyone who has any knowledge of international law will know that it is an incomplete and an imperfect system.
    • Another tells of the time when she saw a large and promising box under the tree, only to find it was an incomplete set of BhS glass tumblers.
    • It is necessarily too anecdotal and incomplete with respect to the immigrant experience for that.
    • For this reason, every history of the Second World War is necessarily fractured and incomplete.
    • He has received incomplete relief of this symptom despite appropriate conventional medication.
    • The reader too draws back and shares his incomplete understanding along with his respect for his mother.
    • The skeptics argue that the vision of freedom embodied in the rights tradition is for this reason partial and incomplete.
    • Exceptions are evidence that the explanation is wrong somehow, or incomplete.
    • I think if I didn't have any I'd make them up, otherwise my life would feel incomplete.
    • We are witnessing a compelling, but necessarily incomplete, account of what went on.
    • A man's life, we are told, is incomplete unless and until he has tasted love, poverty and war.
    • Without the confidence to become what he is meant to be, a man remains incomplete.
    Synonyms
    deficient, insufficient, imperfect, defective, partial, patchy, sketchy, fragmentary, fragmented, scrappy, bitty
    1. 1.1 Not full or finished.
      the analysis remains incomplete
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He is finishing his father's incomplete story The Lizard of Oz, according to the New York Times.
      • That the problems continue shows incomplete and inadequate system planning and implementation.
      • This is useful when there is a need to comment on a shoddy or incomplete job or task.
      • My answer is mumbled and incomplete and leaves me and my questioner unsatisfied.
      • Please provide us with a final account for work done adjusted to take account of defective and incomplete work.
      Synonyms
      unfinished, uncompleted, not finished, not completed, half-finished, half-done, half-completed, partially finished, partially complete, partial, not concluded

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin incompletus, from Latin in- ‘not’ + completus ‘filled, finished’ (see complete).

 
 
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