Incomplete

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incomplete \In`com*plete"\, a. [L. incompletus: cf. F.
     incomplet. See {In-} not, and {Complete}.]
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     1. Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all
        its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect;
        defective.


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              A most imperfect and incomplete divine. --Milton.
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     2. (Bot.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of
        a flower.
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     {Incomplete equation} (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms
        are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one
        or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to
        0.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incomplete
       adj 1: not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account
              of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete
              military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" [syn:
              {uncomplete}] [ant: {complete}]
       2: lacking one or more of the four whorls of the complete
          flower--sepals or petals or stamens or pistils; "an
          incomplete flower" [ant: {complete}, {complete}]
       3: not yet finished; "his thesis is still incomplete"; "an
          uncompleted play" [syn: {uncompleted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "incomplete":
     adulterated, arrested, blemished, broken, callow, crude, damaged,
     defective, deficient, embryonic, erroneous, failing, fallible,
     faulty, found wanting, fractional, fragmentary, fragmented,
     hypoplastic, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure,
     in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inaccurate,
     inadequate, incompetent, inexact, infant, insufficient, lacking,
     makeshift, mediocre, missing, mixed, needing, not enough,
     not perfect, off, part, partial, patchy, piecemeal, rough, scant,
     scanty, scrappy, sectional, segmental, segmentary, short, shy,
     sketchy, too little, unaccomplished, underdeveloped, undeveloped,
     undone, unequal to, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unqualified,
     unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough,
     wanting