complementaries
- plural of complementary.
Example Sentences
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But just as much as complementaries, van Gogh loved using colors that are adjacent on the color wheel.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2019
This novel about young Ged’s education in both magic and self-understanding relies throughout on Taoist notions of complementaries — the balance between light and dark, speech and silence, self and shadow.
From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2016
The complementaries of red and violet are exceedingly trying to most complexions, and orange and orange-yellow are fatiguing to the eye.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Triemens, Joseph
These primaries are red, green, and blue and it will be noted that they are the complementaries of the "subtractive" primaries.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew
In a similar way, light and dark tints act as complementaries.
From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by Pyle, William Henry
