incomplete
Another problem is the apparent incompleteness of the map.
The living room was L-shaped, signifying a sense of incompleteness.
An air of incompleteness permeates even finished projects.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Incomplete
Anglocentric
Anglocentrism
broad brush
demi-
Eurocentric
extent
hemi-
imperfect
imperfection
imperfectly
in a manner of speakingidiom
incomplete
partly
patchily
patchiness
patchy
scratch/scrape the surfaceidiom
semi
up to a pointidiom
vaguely

Examples of incompleteness

incompleteness
In their mixture of amateurish incompleteness and ambitious effort, the pages bear witness to a conflict.
Because of contingency, unexpected strategic choices and the incompleteness of our knowledge of circumstances and motives, we may not be able to predict social revolutions.
We now give another source of incompleteness, which is also linked to a lack of polymorphic maps.
If new cases are continually introduced to remedy incompleteness, their number may grow unchecked.
Sometimes this kind of incompleteness can come about due to our ignorance, or to our being efficient, or even lazy.
Distilling melodic motion to the most expectant and abbreviated of half cadences, the motive makes a strong impression of incompleteness and immediate demand.
This result is not dependent on the fact that the agent's initial dispositions are incomplete (although incompleteness would seem to be a realistic assumption here).
This is explained by the incompleteness of the later material and the lack of editions of comparative material such as charters.
This doesn't generally spell out the demarcation problem, though, nor show how it would apply to any specific energy or informational physical causal incompleteness proposal.
Another source of incompleteness is that both simulation preorders are generally too def discriminative with regard to data.
There is no market incompleteness here and all risks are pooled.
Other inherent problems with these surveillance data include incompleteness of reporting and possible measurement error due to misclassification.
One of the apparent weaknesses of most cyberdictionaries is their simplicity and incompleteness.
Detection of ambiguity, inconsistency and incompleteness in the documents used to elicit the requirements, defining a ' coherent ' set of requirements.
Five respondents are missing because of incompleteness of data.
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