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/kˌɑmpləmˈɛntri/ /kˌɑmpləmˈɛntʃi/ Listen

Complementary

adjective

Of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other.

Acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole). Synonyms: complemental, completing.

noun

Either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments). Synonym: complementary color.

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"Complementary" Quotes from Famous Books

... sacerdotal class, the Atharva-Veda is, in the main a book of spells and incantations appealing to the demon world, and teems with notions about witchcraft current among the lower grades of the population, and derived from an immemorial antiquity. These two, thus complementary to each other in contents are obviously the most important of the four Vedas ...

— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

... India is to win and maintain? Can anything small or circumscribed ever satisfy the mind of India? Has her own history and the teaching of the past prepared her for some temporary and quite subordinate gain? There are at this moment two complementary and not antagonistic ideals before the country. India is drawn into the vortex of international competition. She has to become efficient in every way,—through spread of education, through performance of civic duties and responsibilities, through activities ...

— Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose - His Life and Speeches • Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose

... shirt-waist and the cloak making trades in New York seem to show that, where men and women engage in the same field of activity, their work is, by a natural division, not competitive or antagonistic, but complementary. Indeed, so little is it antagonistic that the very first spark that lit the fire of the largest strike of women that ever occurred in this country, the shirt-waist makers' strike, was kindled by an ...

— Making Both Ends Meet • Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt

... time as to be almost a new creation. But while it is easy to point out the defects of the two methods, few critics have had the courage to give fair consideration to both possibilities; to treat the two aims, not as mutually exclusive, but as complementary; to realize that the spirit and the letter may be not two but one. In the sixteenth century Sir Thomas North translated from the French Amyot's wise observation: "The office of a fit translator consisteth not only in the faithful expressing ...

— Early Theories of Translation • Flora Ross Amos

... the marble for the beauty of the stature, and the mechanism for the illusion of the play? The "opposition" between science and poetry lies not in the object, but in our mode of regarding it. The scientific and the poetical spirit are complementary, as the inside to the outside of a garment, and if they seem to drive each other away it is because the mind cannot easily entertain and employ both together; but one is passive ...

— A Trip to Venus • John Munro

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