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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having all necessary or normal parts, components, or steps; entire: a complete meal.
  2. adj. Botany Having all principal parts, namely, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistil or pistils. Used of a flower.
  3. adj. Having come to an end; concluded.
  4. adj. Absolute; total: "In Cairo I have seen buildings which were falling down as they were being put up, buildings whose incompletion was complete” ( William H. Gass).
  5. adj. Skilled; accomplished: a complete musician.
  6. adj. Thorough; consummate: a complete coward.
  7. adj. Football Caught in bounds by a receiver: a complete pass.
  8. v. To bring to a finish or an end: She has completed her studies.
  9. v. To make whole, with all necessary elements or parts: A second child would complete their family.
  10. v. Football To throw (a forward pass) so as to be caught by a receiver.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having no deficiency; wanting no part or element; perfect; whole; entire; full: as, in complete armor.
  2. Thorough; consummate; perfect in kind or quality.
  3. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
  4. In the case of a partial differential equation of the first order, a solution containing the full number of arbitrary constants, but no arbitrary function.
  5. n. The last of the daily canonical hours in the Roman Catholic breviary: same as complin.
  6. To make complete; bring to a consummation or an end; add or supply what is lacking to; finish; perfect; fill up or out: as, to complete a house or a task; to complete an unfinished design; to complete another's thought, or the measure of one's wrongs.
  7. To fulfil; accomplish; realize.
  8. Synonyms To consummate, perform, execute, achieve, realize.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
  2. v. transitive To make whole or entire.
  3. adj. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
  4. adj. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
  5. adj. Generic intensifier.
  6. adj. analysis in which every Cauchy sequence converges.
  7. adj. algebra in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
  8. adj. mathematics In which all small limits exist.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.
  2. adj. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
  3. adj. (Bot.) Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.
  4. v. To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. write all the required information onto a form
  2. adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
  3. adj. having every necessary or normal part or component or step
  4. v. bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements
  5. adj. perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities
  6. adj. highly skilled
  7. v. complete a pass
  8. v. complete or carry out
  9. adj. having come or been brought to a conclusion
  10. v. come or bring to a finish or an end

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English compleet ("full, complete"), from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of complere ("to fill up, fill full, fulfil, complete"), from com- + *plere ("to fill"), akin to full: see full and plenty and compare deplete, replete. Compare also complement, compliment. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English complet, from Latin complētus, past participle of complēre, to fill out : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + plēre, to fill; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

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  • “By the assistance, however, of the latter, what store of learning might we not expect from complete Arabic translations of many of the Greek and Latin authors, _viz. _ of the _complete_ works of Livy, Tacitus, and many others.”

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa

  • complete verifiable elimination" covering even undeclared nuclear facilities, similar to the Bush administration's principle of ¡°complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization.”

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  • “SAN FRANCISCO—Three years after calling the term "complete gibberish," Larry Ellison is selling the cloud.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Oracle's Ellison Embraces Cloud Craze

  • “The word complete in the first chapter of James means “whole,” “well,” or “physical or spiritual well-being.””

    Simon & Schuster: ONE GREAT TRUTH

  • “The planeswalker's use of the term complete ran a chill through the mage.”

    Bloodlines

  • “Hence, in the sale of real estate by the husband, his wife must, with the husband, sign the conveyance to make the title complete to the purchaser.”

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  • “Obviously, the very first season in 1992, you had what I call complete virgins.”

    Forbes: As The Real World Turns

  • “In The Book of Bond 1965, former British Secret Service Chief of Staff William Tanner offers what he calls a complete and authoritative guide to 007-ly thought, conversation and behavior.”

    Forbes: The New Bond Car

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