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complementary

[ˌkɑːmplɪˈmentri]

Definition:
1. Someone or something that completes or makes someone or something better.
2. Mutually supplying each other's lack.
3. Completing something or satisfying a lack in something.
4. Combining in such a way as to enhance or emphasize the qualities of each other or another.
5. Relating to complementary medicine.

Use 'complementary' in a sentence:

  1. Find the measure of the complementary angle for each of the following angles.
  2. My family and my job both play an important part in my life, fulfilling separate but complementary needs.
  3. The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects.
  4. Discipline and love should be complementary to each other.
  5. The second TV network was complementary to the BBC.
  6. To improve the quality of life through work, two complementary strategies are necessary.
  7. All three modalities are complementary to each other and can be used alone or in combination.
  8. Purple is the complementary color of yellow.
  9. Complementary schemes are created by combining colors from opposite sides of the color wheel.
  10. At the heart of color theory, complementary colors are the opposite hues on the color wheel.
  11. They had different but complementary skills.
  12. Three guitarists playing interlocking, complementary parts.
  13. Internet technology is actually complementary to traditional technologies.