Dictionary

complete en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /kɒmˈpliːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /kəmˈpliːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /kəmˈpliːt/ (General-American)
• (US) audio

Etymology

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).

Meanings

1. 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.
   • After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
   • […]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum. 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:
   • 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 on 27 Apr 2017, page 171:
2. 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:
3. (attributive) Generic intensifier.
   • Our vacation was a complete disaster.
   • It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
   • He is a complete bastard!
4. (of a metric space or topological group) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
5. (of a local ring, qualifier:ring theory) Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
6. (of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
7. (of a category) In which all small limits exist.
8. (of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
9. (of a problem) 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:

Forms

Antonyms

incomplete

Deriveds

completist · precomplete · complete the square · Turing complete · Turing-complete · complete graph · complete partial order · subcomplete · complete with · complete lattice · functionally complete · semi-complete · AI-complete · overcomplete · P-complete · noncomplete · completion · quasicompletesemicomplete · complete package · complete internal reflection · complete protein · complete street · complete bipartite graph · complete game · completely · complete measure · complete angle · complete abortion · complete androgen insensitivity syndrome · completism · undercomplete · uncomplete · complete and utter · complete blood count · completeness

Hyponyms

bicomplete · cocomplete · feature-complete · NP-complete

Synonyms

completed · wholesale · downright · sheer · full · thorough · unfettered · unattenuated · abject · utter · whole · categoric · unalloyed · rank · pure · unqualified · in the books · concluded · unconditional · clean · outright · out-and-out · full-bore · precious · categorical · prize · concluded · total · unmitigated · complete · full-blown · total · unadulterated · complete · absolute · straight-out · uncompromising · done · finished · thoroughgoing · arrant · decided · done · right · complete · proper · perfect · root and branch · holo- · regular · one · consummate · ended · mere · total · whole · full-on · utter · unreserved · downright · entire · entire · unrestricted · overall · frightful · stark

Translations (151)

id lengkap (with everything included) · hu kész (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · eo kompleta (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · pl zupełna (of a lattice: such that every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound) · bg завършен (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · kmr temam (with everything included) · ur پورا (with everything included) · he מושלם (with everything included) · hu lezárt (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · fi täydellinen (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · kmr temamkirî (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · ia complete (with everything included) · pl kompletny (with everything included) · ar ذَرِيع (generic intensifier derived from "complete") · de vollständig (with everything included) · nn komplett (with everything included) · pl zupełna (of a category: such that all small limits exist) · fi täydellinen (generic intensifier derived from "complete") · ca complet (with everything included) · nl algeheel (with everything included) · kmr kamil (with everything included) · grc τέλειος (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · te సంపూర్ణమైన (with everything included) · ckb تەواو (with everything included) · te పూర్తి (with everything included) · sh pun (with everything included) · pt íntegro (with everything included) · ru су́щий (generic intensifier derived from "complete") · pt concluído (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · he לגמרי (generic intensifier derived from "complete") · sv klar (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · cs úplný (with everything included) · ja 全い (with everything included) · af volledig (with everything included) · bg пълен (of a proof system: such that any semantically valid formula is also provable) · bg цял (with everything included) · nl volledig (with everything included) · it completo (with everything included) · la complētus (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · uk заве́ршений (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · el πλήρης (with everything included) · uk ці́лий (with everything included) · sv fullständig (with everything included) · ga foirfe (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · ru отъя́вленный (generic intensifier derived from "complete") · pt terminado (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · nl allesomvattend (with everything included) · hu teljesített (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · el πλήρες (with everything included) · he מלא (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · ka სრული (with everything included) · gl completo (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · grc ὅλος (with everything included) · mi rūpeke (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · fa کامل (with everything included) · he שלם (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · de ganz (with everything included) · de abgeschlossen (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · uga 𐎌𐎍𐎎 (with everything included) · eo kompleta (of a lattice: such that every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound) · te సంపూర్ణము (with everything included) · la effectus (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · cs plný (with everything included) · cmn 完整 (with everything included) · it completato (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · sw kamili (with everything included) · sv fullständig (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · pt completo (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · ga foirfe (with everything included) · ast completu (with everything included) · es completo (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · he מלא (with everything included) · id komplit (with everything included) · bg пъ́лен (with everything included) · fi täydellinen (with everything included) · ga líonmhar (with everything included) · it concluso (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · de beendet (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · ru соверше́нный (with everything included) · nl compleet (with everything included) · fr complète (with everything included) · hi समाप्त (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · fr complète (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · kmr qedandî (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · ms lengkap (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · eo kompleta (with everything included) · hi पूरा (with everything included) · ca completa (with everything included) · pl zupełny (of a proof system: such that any semantically valid formula is also provable) · ka დასრულებული (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · kmr tev (with everything included) · fr complet (with everything included) · gl completo (with everything included) · uk по́вний (with everything included) · bg пълен (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · mk полн (with everything included) · tr eksiksiz (with everything included) · ru це́лый (with everything included) · cmn 完全 (with everything included) · pl zupełna (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · sk plný (with everything included) · sl popoln (with everything included) · ja 完全な (with everything included) · sah толору (with everything included) · es completo (with everything included) · he משוכלל (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · is algjör (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · lv pilnīgs (with everything included) · ar كَامِل (with everything included) · cmn 完成的 (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · sh пун (with everything included) · de komplett (with everything included) · he שלם (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · hu komplett (generic intensifier derived from "complete") · it completa (with everything included) · la integer (with everything included) · oc complet (with everything included) · be по́ўны (with everything included) · pt completo (with everything included) · sv fullständig (generic intensifier derived from "complete") · ja 終わった (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · ca complet (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · pt completo (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · hy լիարժեք (with everything included) · pt totalizado (with everything included) · sl dokončan (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · gd buileach (with everything included) · fi kokonainen (with everything included) · pl pełny (with everything included) · pt integral (with everything included) · hu teljes (with everything included) · hu elkészült (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · tr tamam (with everything included) · hy ամբողջական (with everything included) · pon unsek (with everything included) · hi पूर्ण (with everything included) · fa سپری (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · hu elvégzett (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · hy լրիվ (with everything included) · ast completu (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · gl cabal (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · sv färdig (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · ru по́лный (with everything included) · nb komplett (with everything included) · he גמור (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · he שלם (with everything included) · ro complet (with everything included) · id sempurna (with everything included) · es completo (of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it) · fi valmis (finished; ended; concluded; completed) · sv komplett (with everything included)

complete en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kɒmˈpliːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /kəmˈpliːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /kəmˈpliːt/ (General-American)
• (US) audio

Etymology

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).

Meanings

1. A completed survey.
   • …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
   • “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 Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451
   • 2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson. “Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult to get completes on! Everyone else on the job is most likely struggling, and there will be easier surveys that you will dial on.”

Forms

complete en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /kɒmˈpliːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /kəmˈpliːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /kəmˈpliːt/ (General-American)
• (US) audio

Etymology

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).

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
   • How far are you willing to reach? While you're coveting outcomes that you can't achieve Now you're on a mission, but you won't complete Shouldn't hold on to me, hold on to me Try to let go of me, let go of me 2023, “30 Under 13”, performed by Better Lovers:
   • 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 book twice as long. 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:
2. (transitive) To make whole or entire.
   • The last chapter completes the book nicely.
3. To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
4. (informal) 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:
   • “Adding the World Cup to his résumé means Rodri has now won the World Cup, the European Championship, the Champions League, and the Ballon d’Or,” writes Owen Bagnall. “Has anyone else ‘completed football’ like this?” They have but it’s a small, elite list. 2026 July 22, “The Knowledge; World Cup, Ballon d’Or, Champions League, Euros … has Rodri completed football?”, in The Guardian, London:
   • ["]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 player hopes to break some more records in his career, although there are very few left. 2026 April 13, Sead Dedovic, “Novak Djokovic admits he does not feel like he has “completed tennis” yet”, in Tennis World USA:

Forms

Deriveds

autocomplete · complete the square · completability · recomplete · completable · completement · tab complete

Relateds

accomplish · deplete · completive · comply · complement · completion · replete

Synonyms

perfect · finish · finish · fullcome · end · complete · do · round off · top off · consummate · consummate · stop · terminate · conclude · finalize · get through · absolve · stay · discontinue · wind up · accomplish

Translations (145)

hi समापन करना (to finish) · uz bajarmoq (to finish) · pl skompletować (to make whole or entire) · he השלים (to make whole or entire) · fa تمام کردن (to finish) · sq mbaroj (to finish) · pl ukończyć (to finish) · ka დამთავრება (to finish) · de vervollständigen (to make whole or entire) · te ముగించు (to finish) · eo kompleti (to finish) · hy ավարտել (to finish) · da gøre færdig (to finish) · es cabalar (to make whole or entire) · fi tehdä loppuun (to finish) · fa کامل کردن (to finish) · it portare a termine (to finish) · cmn 完成 (to finish) · ru зака́нчивать (to finish) · nb gjøre ferdig (to finish) · ru заверши́ть (to finish) · vi hoàn thành (to finish) · nl voltooien (to finish) · kix thǖchīk (to finish) · sv göra färdig (to finish) · hu kiegészít (to make whole or entire) · hu elkészít (to finish) · uk комплектува́ти (to make whole or entire) · ro termina (to finish) · kmr temam kirin (to finish) · ca completar (to finish) · uk заве́ршити (to finish) · da fuldføre (to finish) · de beenden (to finish) · mi whakatepe (to finish) · tr tamamlamak (to finish) · kk бітіру (to finish) · id menyelesaikan (to finish) · hu befejez (to finish) · it completare (to make whole or entire) · el συμπληρώνω (to make whole or entire) · es cabalear (to make whole or entire) · es completar (to make whole or entire) · kmr xilas kirin (to finish) · sl dopolniti (to make whole or entire) · kmr kamil kirin (to finish) · es completar (to finish) · id menyelesaikan (to make whole or entire) · eo plenigi (to make whole or entire) · gl cumprir (to make whole or entire) · ms habis (to finish) · da færdiggøre (to finish) · hi समाप्त करना (to finish) · ja 完うする (to finish) · da afslutte (to finish) · hu befejez (to make whole or entire) · ru укомплектова́ть (to make whole or entire) · kmr kamil kirin (to make whole or entire) · mi whakatepe (to make whole or entire) · ar أَكْمَلَ (to finish) · pt terminar (to finish) · pt concluir (to make whole or entire) · ka შევსება (to make whole or entire) · hu elvégez (to finish) · fi lopettaa (to make whole or entire) · de ergänzen (to make whole or entire) · sv fullborda (to make whole or entire) · fr achever (to finish) · io kompletigar (to make whole or entire) · bg завършвам (to finish) · bg довършвам (to make whole or entire) · nl aanvullen (to make whole or entire) · khb ᧟ᦵᦔᧈ (to finish) · es acabalar (to finish) · uk заве́ршувати (to finish) · tr tamamlamak (to make whole or entire) · aln kry (to make whole or entire) · fi saada valmiiksi (to finish) · pl dopełnić (to make whole or entire) · pt inteirar (to make whole or entire) · id merampungkan (to finish) · es cabalar (to finish) · es cabalear (to finish) · pl uzupełnić (to make whole or entire) · de fertigstellen (to finish) · he השלים (to finish) · ckb تەواو کردن (to finish) · it completare (to finish) · kmr qedandin (to finish) · fr accomplir (to finish) · la finiō (to finish) · lo ໝົດ (to finish) · sq kry (to finish) · it portare a termine (to make whole or entire) · khb ᦵᦙᧃᧉᦷᦙᧇ (to finish) · ru зако́нчить (to finish) · sq mbaroj (to make whole or entire) · he סיים (to finish) · el ολοκληρώνω (to finish) · sv färdigställa (to finish) · ca complir (to make whole or entire) · pt concluir (to finish) · de komplettieren (to make whole or entire) · la compleō (to make whole or entire) · arz كامل (to finish) · ka მორჩნა (to finish) · id merampungkan (to make whole or entire) · gl completar (to finish) · kk аяқтау (to finish) · te పూర్తిచేయు (to finish) · pt completar (to make whole or entire) · fr terminer (to finish) · sl dokončati (to finish) · ca complir (to finish) · got 𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (to finish) · ru укомплекто́вывать (to make whole or entire) · pt acabar (to finish) · hi अंत करना (to finish) · cs dokončit (to finish) · it concludere (to finish) · th สำเร็จ (to finish) · kmr temam kirin (to make whole or entire) · ro completa (to finish) · io kompletigar (to finish) · nb fullføre (to finish) · ja 完成させる (to make whole or entire) · es acabalar (to make whole or entire) · ru заверша́ть (to finish) · nn fullføre (to finish) · de fertigmachen (to finish) · sl zaključiti (to finish) · fr compléter (to make whole or entire) · nn gjere ferdig (to finish) · lo ສຳເລັດ (to finish) · sv slutföra (to finish) · fi täydentää (to make whole or entire) · hi पूरा करना (to make whole or entire) · ar اِنْتَهَى (to finish) · hu teljesít (to finish) · ka დასრულება (to finish) · ja 終える (to finish) · pl ukanczać (to finish) · ru комплектова́ть (to make whole or entire) · grc τελέω (to finish) · ja 完了する (to finish)