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say it: kuhm-PLEET
complete is a verb and adjective meaning "come or bring to a finish or an end". It carries 10 recorded senses.
come or bring to a finish or an end
“He finished the dishes”
“She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree”
“The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours”
bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements
“A child would complete the family”
having every necessary or normal part or component or step
“a complete meal”
“a complete wardrobe”
“a complete set of the Britannica”
“a complete set of china”
“a complete defeat”
“a complete accounting”
perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities
“a complete gentleman”
“consummate happiness”
“a consummate performance”
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
“an arrant fool”
“a complete coward”
“a consummate fool”
“a double-dyed villain”
“gross negligence”
“a perfect idiot”
“pure folly”
“what a sodding mess”
“stark staring mad”
“a thorough nuisance”
“a thoroughgoing villain”
“utter nonsense”
“the unadulterated truth”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for complete come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.