incomplete

Universal Words adjective, noun adjective not having everything that it should have; not finished or complete: an incomplete set of figures * Spoken language contains many incomplete sentences. * Our holiday would be incomplete without some time on the tennis courts. OPPCOMPLETE incompletely adverb: The causes of the phenomenon are still incompletely understood. incompleteness noun [U] noun (AmE) the grade that a student gets for a course of education when they have not completed all the work for that course