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complementary Adjective 1. forming a complete or balanced whole 2. forming a complement
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complementary adjective matching, companion, corresponding, compatible, reciprocal, interrelating, interdependent, harmonizing << OPPOSITE incompatible Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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To speak with severe technicality, a ship or a fleet is "brought up" - the complementary words unpronounced and unwritten being, of course, "to an anchor. Seventeenth century Puritanism was to find a supreme spokesman in prose fiction as well as in poetry; John Milton and John Bunyan, standing at widely different angles of experience, make one of the most interesting complementary pairs in all literature. 4, together with the proper complementary details -- and two of my trained assistants. |
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