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单词 incomplete
释义

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

/ɪnkəmˈpliːtnəs / 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).

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