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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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

complementary adj 1: of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms" 2: acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) [syn: complemental, complementary, completing] n 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); "yellow and blue are complementaries" [syn: complementary color, complementary]
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