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.