Search Result for "complementary":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments);
- Example: "yellow and blue are complementaries"
[syn: complementary color, complementary]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other;
- Example: "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"
2. acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole);
[syn: complemental, complementary, completing]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Complementary \Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, a. Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. [1913 Webster] Complementary colors. See under Color. Complementary angles (Math.), two angles whose sum is 90[deg]. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Complementary \Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, n. [See Complimentary.] One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "complementary": analogous, answering, coequal, complemental, completing, completive, completory, consummative, consummatory, correspondent, corresponding, culminative, equipollent, equivalent, filling, fulfilling, homologous, perfective, reciprocal, reciprocative, tantamount
