Thesaurus: complementary

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1. a. Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers.
2. n. One skilled in compliments.
3. adj. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
4. adj. acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
5. n. either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)
6. Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Complementary colors. See under Color. -- Complementary angles (Math.), two angles whose sum is 90°. One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
7. Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers.Complementary colors. See under Color.-- Complementary angles (Math.), two angles whose sum is 90°.
8. j:100 s. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other