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Incomplete vs Completed - What's the difference?

incomplete | completed |

As adjectives the difference between incomplete and completed

is that incomplete is not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective while completed is finished.

As a noun incomplete

is something incomplete.

As a verb completed is

past tense of complete.

incomplete

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
  • (botany) Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.

    • Related terms

    * incompletely * incompletion

    Synonyms

    * (not complete) unwhole, underdone, unfinished

    Antonyms

    * complete

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something incomplete.
  • # (Internet) A multipart file posted to Usenet that is incomplete and thus unusable.
  • # (Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.
  • A designation of being incomplete.
    • He got four incompletes out of five courses last semester.
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    completed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (complete)
    • Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4] (pdf) from [http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/chemical-synthesis/learning-center/aldrichimica-acta.html Sigma-Aldrich
  • :: He completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree at the University of New South Wales in 1958 and went on to the Victoria University of Manchester where his studies on the fungal pigment phomazarin led to the award of a Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of (the late) Professor Arthur J. Birch.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • finished