compleat
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of compleat
1875–80; earlier spelling of complete, used phrasally in allusion to The Compleat Angler ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The medley is the most technically demanding event in swimming, requiring mastery of four separate strokes and three different types of turns—the test of the compleat swimmer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The compleat East African camera safari must include side trips to Kenya's neighbors, Tanzania and Uganda.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Blackett is such a compleat capitalist that he is willing to trade his daughter like a commodity in order to pump up the profits.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the Don, Paul Hecht is the compleat cynic and as seductive as the hell he courts.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Joseph Whipple met Ona, however, he was convinced of her “thirst for compleat freedom.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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