complemental

American  

[kom-pluh-men-tl] / ˌkɒm pləˈmɛn tl /

adjective

1. complementary; completing.

2. Obsolete.

   1. accomplished.

   2. ceremonious.

   3. complimentary.

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Other Word Forms

• complementally adverb
• uncomplemental adjective
• uncomplementally adverb

Etymology

Origin of complemental

First recorded in 1595–1605; complement + -al ¹

Example Sentences

It is easy to see that intellectually, as well as physically, men and women are complemental, and when the conclusions arrived at are identical they become confirmatory of each other.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus

It is a well-known optical fact that the color of shadow is complemental to that of light: and that therefore, in general terms, warm light has cool shadow, and cool light hot shadow.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John

We have noticed the many instances of tiny complemental males, in connection with hermaphrodite forms, which, as Darwin states, must have arisen from the advantage ensuring cross-fertilisation in the females who harbour them.

From The Truth About Woman by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

Perhaps they were really mated, their pettinesses and selfishnesses peculiarly complemental.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

The large relative size of the rostrum in the complemental male both of this species and of S. Peronii, is a remarkable character, which I can in no way account for.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles