complete – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of complete

Adjective: complete

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativecompleter
Superlativecompletest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore complete
Superlativemost complete

Sample Sentences

  • 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:]
  • 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:]
  • He is a complete bastard!
  • It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
  • Our vacation was a complete disaster.
  • 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:]

Adjectives inflected like complete

serene, severe, secure, sedate, wheelie, simple, complete, fulsome, sprightlie, discrete, plosive, bizarre, brusque, brittle, wholesome, sincere, shystie, loveable, prophane, terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

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). See: Latin Adjectives 'completus', English Adjectives 'full'.