🤝 To go well with 🤝 Something that matches 👥 Complete group 🩸 Immune proteins 📚 Grammar part

complement

1 6.5

A word or phrase needed to finish the meaning of a verb

noun
/ˈkɒmplɪmənt/

Specialized

: complemento

An infinitive phrase is made up of an infinitive and any complements (direct objects, predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, or modifiers).
complement clause
complement-taking verb

Examples

The adjective 'happy' needs a complement to explain what makes someone happy.
And what is the complement of the entire sample space?
Nursing facilities that have space are often able to offer adult daycare programs as transitions to inpatient care and as complements to existing staff and programs.

Academic text (1995)
In grammar, a verb often requires a complement to clarify its meaning in a sentence.
In the phrase 'to be a doctor,' the noun 'doctor' acts as a complement to the verb 'to be.'

Antonyms

fragment

184 3.2

A small piece broken off something larger

Compounds

full complement

5 4.9

The number of people needed for a group or team to work well

perfect complement

1 4.2

Something that goes well with another thing and makes it better

complement fixation

Specialized

8.9

A lab test that shows whether blood has antibodies to a particular germ

complement fixation test

Specialized

6.5

A lab test that mixes blood serum with a germ piece and a blood protein to check for antibodies

Surface Forms

complement singular

complements plural

Etymology

Complement comes from Latin parts com- 'together' and plere 'to fill', and it is like the word complete. In grammar a complement is the word or phrase that 'fills' a sentence and makes its meaning whole. So a complement is something a sentence needs to be complete.