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incomplete

/ˌɪnkəmˈplit/

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What does incomplete mean?

adjective

  1. Not complete; not finished.
  2. Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.

noun

  1. A multipart file posted to a Usenet newsgroup that is incomplete and thus unusable.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.
  2. A designation of being incomplete.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˌɪnkəmˈplit/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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Restless, discontented, visionary, without personal ambitions, but with a certain avidity of imagination, she was, as I have said before, eminently incomplete.
Henry JamesThe AmericanProject Gutenberg ebook #177
Without these teeth the proof of the corpus delicti would have been incomplete, and so afforded Webster a fair chance of acquittal.
H. B. (Henry Brodribb) IrvingA Book of Remarkable CriminalsProject Gutenberg ebook #446
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The starting point of any process of thinking is something going on, something which just as it stands is incomplete or unfulfilled.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852
However, it will perhaps suffice to show that the geological record is not so hopelessly incomplete as Darwin believed it to be.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909
If the reader has paid any attention to the story of the Anthrax, he must have perceived that my narrative is incomplete.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422