Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not complete.
- adj. Football Not caught in bounds or intercepted: an incomplete forward pass.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not complete; not fully finished or developed; lacking some part or particular; defective; imperfect.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
- adj. Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.
- n. Something incomplete.
- n. A designation of being incomplete.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
- adj. Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not complete or total; not completed
- adj. not yet finished
Examples
“In using the term incomplete fertilization, I mean supplying only potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen, and possibly lime and sulphur, when the soil is denuded of several other elements.”
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“A recovery by two or three tenants in tail with crofs, remainders, and a fine by the other, leaves the title incomplete as to the Ihare of tlie perfon who, levies the fine, - •* 23”
“The condition referred to above and which we termed incomplete constipation may affect the nursing infant.”
“Shapiro said the State Department was right to question the players' documentation, which he called incomplete.”
“The former governor had refused to take part in the trial, but he surprised everyone by asking to make a closing statement in which he insisted that he should not be tossed out of office on what he called incomplete evidence.”
“But sometimes leaving your costume incomplete is the best way to get noticed.”
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“Hmm. Maybe it was better for me to be working in incomplete sentences after all.”
“Yes she lacks presidential qualities and often talks in incomplete sentences, most of the time she don't know what she talking about.”
“Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.”
“After all, execs may get big bonuses or receive extra review points for "growing the business", which doesn't always mean winning more contracts, but can include maximizing the profit of existing contracts (with limited experience personnel, encouraging processes that result in incomplete or conflicting requirements which will surely need fixing & reworking eventually etc. etc.)”
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