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# incomplete

«incomplete» in Mova's school dictionary: **not finished or with some parts missing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (incomplete)

### meaning for a pupil

Incomplete means not finished or with some parts missing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incomplete/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

School (incomplete homework, incomplete sentences), maths (incomplete tables, missing numbers), science (incomplete data).

### examples

- Your homework is incomplete. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incomplete/#x1)
- This puzzle is incomplete; three pieces are missing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incomplete/#x2)
- «Ran to the» is an incomplete sentence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incomplete/#x3)
- Fill in the incomplete table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incomplete/#x4)
- The data was incomplete, so we repeated the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incomplete/#x5)
- The house was still incomplete when they moved in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incomplete/#x6)
- Thus when Prometheus created the first man, Momus considered his work incomplete because there was no aperture in the breast through which his inmost thoughts might be read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incomplete/#x7)

### note

Opposite: complete. Noun: incompleteness. In maths an incomplete pattern or table asks you to find the missing values.

### In the corpora

- [A subordinate clause written alone, like «Because it was raining.», is an incomplete sentence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/28-clauses-main-subordinate-and-joining-words/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «incomplete» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incomplete/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.