Dictionary Entry
complementary
complementary is a 13-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Face value is 24 in Scrabble and 29 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
13 letters · Scrabble 24 · Words With Friends 29 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers.
- 2noun
One skilled in compliments.
- 3noun
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"
- 4adjective
acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
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- 5adjective
of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
"`male' and `female' are complementary terms"
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