incomplete
/ɪnkəmˈpliːt
/adjective
1Not having all the necessary or appropriate parts: incomplete carvings of cattle...
- Yet although Katz's book is necessarily incomplete in what it can cover, it lives up to its goals remarkably well.
- It is necessarily too anecdotal and incomplete with respect to the immigrant experience for that.
- We are witnessing a compelling, but necessarily incomplete, account of what went on.
Synonyms
deficient, insufficient, imperfect, defective, partial, patchy, sketchy, fragmentary, fragmented, scrappy, bitty;
lacking, wanting, not entire, not whole, not total, abridged, shortened;
qualified, restricted
1.1Not full or finished: the analysis remains incomplete...
- 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.
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 ...- As such, expression in psychoanalytic theory always registers the subject's lack, incompleteness, or status as split.
- 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.
Origin
Late Middle English: from late Latin incompletus, from Latin in- 'not' + completus 'filled, finished' (see complete).