Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
Section III. Quantity
4. Concrete Quantity
53. Incompleteness.
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NOUN: | INCOMPLETENESS &c. adj.; deficience [rare], deficiency, short weight, short measure; shortcoming [See Shortcoming]; want, lack, insuffciency [See Insufficiency]; imperfection [See Imperfection]; immaturity (nonpreparation) [See Nonpreparation]; half measures. [PART WANTING] defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret; wantage [rare], ullage, shortage; interval [See Interval]; break (discontinuity) [See Discontinuity]; noncompletion [See Noncompletion]; missing link.
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VERB: | BE INCOMPLETE &c. adj.; fall short of [See Shortcoming]; lack &c. (be insufficient) [See Insufficiency]; neglect [See Neglect].
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ADJECTIVE: | INCOMPLETE; imperfect [See Imperfection]; unfinished; uncompleted &c. (see complete [See Completion]); defective, deficient, wanting, failing; bobtailed; in default, in arrear; short, short of; hollow, meager, jejune, poor, scarce, lame, half-and-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude (unprepared) [See Nonpreparation]. MUTILATED, garbled, hashed, mangled, butchered, docked, lopped, truncated. IN PROGRESS, in hand; going on, proceeding.
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ADVERB: | INCOMPLETELY &c. adj.; by halves.
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QUOTATIONS: | - Cætera desunt.
- Caret.
- And I smiled to think God’s greatness Flowed around our incompleteness.—E. B. Browning
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