as in deficient
lacking some necessary part
an incomplete puzzle that has several pieces missing
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Recent Examples of incomplete
That totals more than $425,000 of public money thrown away for nothing – although this amount is incomplete according to a district spokesperson who said at the time that more invoices were expected.
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Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Bird — or birdlike — fossils from the Jurassic period are relatively rare and often incomplete.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
Always use this service responsibly, respect individual privacy and understand that results may be incomplete or vary significantly between different phone numbers.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
Still, data is incomplete and not routinely gathered – with only a third of suspects recording their ethnicity for the 2023 data.
—Nic Robertson, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
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Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Bird — or birdlike — fossils from the Jurassic period are relatively rare and often incomplete.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
Always use this service responsibly, respect individual privacy and understand that results may be incomplete or vary significantly between different phone numbers.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
Still, data is incomplete and not routinely gathered – with only a third of suspects recording their ethnicity for the 2023 data.
—Nic Robertson, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomplete
Adjective
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Second, laser technology is deficient in energy, efficiency, and is too expensive.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 Feb. 2025
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Of course, soil can also be deficient in important nutrients.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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One unsavory reality about this journey is there's no such thing as partial credit.—
Ray Zhou,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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The new moon partial solar eclipse in Aries on March 29th (6:58 a.m. EST) is our green light to set intentions, make power moves, and start anew.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
refinery29.com,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The unfinished floor in the church is symbolic that people come before the Lord in an imperfect state.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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An unfinished job The American aid vacuum can’t be filled by any one nation, said Yoshinara Asada, an adviser with the Japan International Cooperation Agency who works within the Cambodian Mine Action Center.—
Anton L. Delgado,
NBC News,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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That muon then created its own fragmentary debris, sparking a ripple of telltale pale blue photons dubbed Cherenkov radiation that passed over ARCA’s instruments.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
12 Feb. 2025
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The final chapters in the Amistad edition are fragmentary, and the book ends abruptly, ten years before Herod’s death.—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The plume is made of three things: (1) steam - a lot of it; (2) ash - fine, fragmental pieces of silicate glass, not stuff from your backyard BBQ (which is burned carbon); (3) volcanic gases like CO2, SO2, H2S and others.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
22 May 2011
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This would generate a cloud of hot gases and fragmental volcanic material, which could then move downslope gravitationally.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
12 Apr. 2011
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“Incomplete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomplete. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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