complemental
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Etymology
Origin of complemental
First recorded in 1595–1605; complement + -al 1
Example Sentences
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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 John Ruskin
Perhaps they were really mated, their pettinesses and selfishnesses peculiarly complemental.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
Body of the above complemental male, consisting of the thorax supporting the four pairs of limbs, and of the terminal abdominal lobe.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
In a happy marriage these differences become complemental, rendering possible that superior unity in which the two are made one.
From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall
If we could get hold of a complemental critic, a critic who saw what the age did not see, and who saw rightly what the age mistook, we should have a critic of inestimable value.
From The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
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