ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Complemental

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Complemental is an adjective meaning Of the nature of a complement; completing.

Meaning

Of the nature of a complement; completing.

More Meanings

  1. Complementary.
  2. (obsolete) Additional; supplemental, accessory; ancillary.
  3. (obsolete) Of the nature of a ceremony that is not essential but accessory; ceremonial; ceremonious; formal.
  4. (obsolete) Of persons: accomplished; talented; experienced.
  5. (obsolete) Alternative form of complimental (“complimentary”).

Example Sentences

I vvill make a complementall aſſault vpon him for my buſineſſe ſeeth's.
I have no skill in ceremonious letters which have no other ſubſtance, but a faire contexture of complementall phraſes and curteous wordes.
[I]t is an errour worſe than hereſie, to adore the complementall and circumſtantiall piece of felicity, and undervalue thoſe perfections and eſſential points of happineſſe, wherein we reſemble our Maker.
For if the Saxon, (our mother tongue) did complaine; as iuſtly (I doubt) in this point may the Daughter: Languages, for the moſt part in tearmes of Art and Erudition, retayning their originall pouertie, and rather growing rich and abundant, in complementall phraſes and ſuch froth.

Synonyms for complemental

Depending on context, synonyms include complementary, inessential, unessential, completing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include complementary, inessential, unessential, completing, complementall, complimental.

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