incomplete
adjective/ˌɪnkəmˈpliːt/
/ˌɪnkəmˈpliːt/
- not having everything that it should have; not finished or complete
- an incomplete set of figures
- Spoken language contains many incomplete sentences.
- Our holiday would be incomplete without some time on the tennis courts.
Extra Examples- Her collection remained incomplete.
- The building was left incomplete.
- The police acted on incomplete information.
- The data was incomplete.
- The statistics only provide an incomplete picture.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- remain
- leave something
- …
- seriously
- very
- woefully
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from late Latin incompletus, from Latin in- ‘not’ + completus ‘filled, finished’, past participle of complere ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + plere ‘fill’.
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