not having everything that it should have; not finished or complete 不完整的;不完全的;不完善的 an incomplete set of figures 一组不完整的数字 Spoken language contains many incomplete sentences. 口语中有很多不完整的句子。 Our holiday would be incomplete without some time on the tennis courts. 如果没有在网球场上的时间,我们的假期就不会完整。
Extra ExamplesHer collection remained incomplete. 她的收藏还是不全。 The building was left incomplete. 那幢楼没建完就停工了。 The police acted on incomplete information. 警方根据不完整的信息采取了行动。 The data was incomplete. 数据不完整。 The statistics only provide an incomplete picture. 统计数据仅能让人们看到部分情形。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- remain
- leave something
- …
- seriously
- very
- woefully
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Word Originlate Middle English: from late Latin incompletus, from Latin in- ‘not’ + completus ‘filled, finished’, past participle of complere ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + plere ‘fill’.