incomplete

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

in·com·plete adjective, noun BrE [ˌɪnkəmˈpliːt] NAmE [ˌɪnkəmˈpliːt]
adjective
not having everything that it should have; not finished or complete
•an incomplete set of figures
•Spoken language contains many incomplete sentences.
•Our holiday would be incomplete without some time on the tennis courts.
Opp: ↑complete

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from late Latin incompletus, from Latin in- ‘not’ + completus ‘filled, finished’, past participle of complere ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + plere ‘fill’.

Example Bank:
•Her collection remained incomplete.
•The building was left incomplete.
•We begin with a brief and necessarily incomplete review of UK statistics.
•The police acted on incomplete information.
•The recorded data was incomplete and it was necessary to make approximate estimates.
•The statistics only provide an incomplete picture.
Derived Words: ↑incompletely ▪ ↑incompleteness
 
noun (NAmE)
the grade that a student gets for a course of education when they have not completed all the work for that course

Word Origin:
[incomplete incompletely incompleteness] late Middle English: from late Latin incompletus, from Latin in- ‘not’ + completus ‘filled, finished’, past participle of complere ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + plere ‘fill’.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  uncompleted, uncomplete