incompleteness

Roget category 53

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.3. Quantity
›› 1.3.4. Concrete quantity

#53. Incompleteness

noun

incompleteness etc. adj. — deficiency, short measure — shortcoming etc. 304 — insufficiency etc. 640 — imperfection etc. 651 — immaturity etc. (nonpreparation) 674 — half measures.
[part wanting] defect, deficit, defalcation, omission — caret — shortage — interval etc. 198 — break etc. (discontinuity) 70 — noncompletion etc. 730 — missing link.
missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna.

verb

be incomplete etc. adj. — fall short of etc. 304 — lack etc. (be insufficient) 640 — neglect etc. 460.

adjective

incomplete — imperfect etc. 651 — unfinished — uncompleted etc. (complete) etc. 729 — defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing — in default, in arrear^† — short of — hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy — crude etc. (unprepared) 674.
mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated.
in progress, in hand — going on, proceeding.

adverb

incompletely etc. adj. — by halves.

phrase

caetera desunt [Lat.] — caret.

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