complete
Syllables: com·pleteUK/kəmˈpliːt//kəmˈpliːt/
complete verb: to finish; to make done; to reach the end.
Verb
complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)
- To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
- He completed the assignment on time.
- The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a...1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18
- Synonyms:
- accomplish, finish, absolve, conclude, consummate, discontinue, do, end, finalize, fullcome
- To make whole or entire.
- The last chapter completes the book nicely.
- Synonyms:
- consummate, perfect, top off
- To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
- to accomplish every significant achievement within a field
- The 32-year-old has won it all, as the World Cup was the one big trophy missing in his cabinet. [...] Carlsen later shared the following GIF on his X account — chess, completed!2023 August 24, Carlos Alberto Colodro, “Magnus Carlsen “completes” chess as he bags World Cup title”, in Chessbase
- ["]I went to four Olympic Games, and for a long time that medal was missing. To win in Paris, at 37, representing Serbia, is without question one of the greatest moments of my career. [...]
But I don’t feel like I’ve ‘completed’ tennis,” concluded the 24-time Grand Slam champion.
The Serbian tennis...2026 April 13, Sead Dedovic, “Novak Djokovic admits he does not feel like he has “completed tennis” yet”, in Tennis World USA
Adjective
complete (comparative more complete or completer, superlative most complete or completest)
- With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
- My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
- She offered me complete control of the project.
- Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
- When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
- In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- Generic intensifier.
- He is a complete bastard!
- It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
- In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
- Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
- In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
- In which all small limits exist.
- In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
- That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).
- QMA arises naturally in the study of quantum computation, and it also has a complete problem, Local Hamiltonian, which is a generalization of k-SAT.2007, Yi-Kai Liu, The Complexity of the Consistency and N-representability Problems for Quantum States, page 17
- BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of no complete languages for BPP.2009, Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, page 137
Noun
complete (plural completes)
- A completed survey.
- “If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green...
- …our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enough completes.2013, Residential Rates OIR webinar published by PG&E, January 31, 2013
complete meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
complete in Hindi
- to finish
- अंत करना ant karnā, समाप्त करना samāpt karnā, समापन करना samāpan karnā
- to make whole or entire
- पूरा करना pūrā karnā
- with everything included
- पूरा pūrā, पूर्ण pūrṇ
- finished; ended; concluded; completed
- समाप्त samāpt
complete in Tamil
- முடி, முற்றுப்பெறச் செய், நிறைவுசெய், நிறைவாக்கு, முற்றடைந்த, நிறைவடைந்த
complete in Marathi
- complete, enough
- पुरे pure
- complete or well-provided; lacking nothing
- संपन्न sampanna
complete in Urdu
- with everything included
- پورا pūrā
More languagesFewer languages
- complete in Bengali
- সম্পূর্ণ śompurno, পুরাপুরি purapuri, অন্যূন onnuno, পূর্ণ purno
- complete in Telugu
- పూర్తిచేయు pūrticēyu, ముగించు mugiñcu, పూర్తి pūrti, సంపూర్ణమైన sampūrṇamaina
- complete in Malayalam
- സമഗ്രം samagraṁ, കഴിക്കുക kaḻikkuka, പിറങ്ങുക piṟaṅṅuka
- complete in Kannada
- ಮುಡಿ, ಎರು, ನೆರವೇರು, ಕೈನೆರವೇರು
- complete in Punjabi
- ਅਖੰਡ akhaṇḍ
- complete in Gujarati
- સમસ્ત samast
- complete in Odia
- ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ purṇṇa, ଥେଣ୍ଟ theṇṭa, ସାରିବା sāribā, କେବଳ kebaḷa
- complete in Sanskrit
- निखिल níkhila
- complete in Nepali
- समस्त samasta, पूर्ण pūrṇa, सक्नु saknu
- complete in Arabic
- اِنْتَهَى intahā, أَكْمَلَ ʔakmala, كَامِل kāmil, ذَرِيع ḏarīʕ
- complete in Malay
- habis, lengkap
- complete in Indonesian
- menyelesaikan, merampungkan, lengkap, sempurna
- complete in Persian
- کامل کردن, تمام کردن, کامل kâmel, سپری separi
- complete in Thai
- สำเร็จ sǎm-rèt
- complete in Vietnamese
- hoàn thành
Examples of complete in a sentence
- After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
- Our vacation was a complete disaster.
- When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading.1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18:
- The Tsengwen Reservoir, located at Nanhsi village, Tainan, was completed in 1973.1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 416:
- Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original...
Synonyms of complete
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Antonyms
Forms of complete
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | completes |
| present participle | completing |
| past participle | completed |
| past | completed |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | completest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | completedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | completeth |
| alternative form (archaic) | compleat |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more complete |
| comparative | completer |
| superlative | most complete |
| superlative | completest |
| Noun | |
| plural | completes |
Origin of complete
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“to fill up, to complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“to fill, to fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
Words formed from complete
- autocomplete
- completability
- completable
- completement
- recomplete
- tab complete
- complete the square
- AI-complete
- complete abortion
- complete androgen insensitivity syndrome
- complete and utter
- complete angle
- complete bipartite graph
- complete blood count
- complete game
- complete graph
- complete internal reflection
- complete lattice
- completely
- complete measure
- completeness
- complete package
- complete partial order
- complete protein
- complete street
- complete with
- completion
- completism
- completist
- functionally complete
- noncomplete
- overcomplete
- P-complete
- precomplete
- quasicompletesemicomplete
- semi-complete
- subcomplete
- Turing-complete
- Turing complete
- uncomplete
- undercomplete
Phrases with complete
Words that rhyme with complete
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- entreat
- fleet
- retreat
- treat
- conceit
- repeat
- concrete
- discrete
- bittersweet
- suite
- cheat
- cleat
- deceit
- greet
- unseat
- compete
- defeat
- delete
- effete
- elite
- escheat
- indiscrete
- leet
- pleat
- skeet
- sleet
- accrete
- beet
- bleat
- gleet
- ifrit
- incomplete
- overeat
- overheat
- petite
- replete
- superheat
- teat
- tweet
- wheat
- yeet
- Bereshit
- Bow Street
- Crete
- discreet
- downbeat
- jeet
- keet
Questions about complete
- What does complete mean?
- Complete means to finish; to make done; to reach the end.
- What is complete in Hindi?
- Complete in Hindi is अंत करना (ant karnā), समाप्त करना (samāpt karnā), समापन करना (samāpan karnā). See Complete meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use complete in a sentence?
- After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
- What part of speech is complete?
- Complete can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce complete?
- Complete is pronounced /kəmˈpliːt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of complete?
- The past tense of complete is completed.
Words near complete in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: complete (page history and authors); complete (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); पुरे (Marathi) (page history and authors); অন্যূন (Bengali) (page history and authors); കഴിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); complete (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅਖੰਡ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); સમસ્ત (Gujarati) (page history and authors); କେବଳ (Odia) (page history and authors); निखिल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); पूर्ण (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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