Complementary
Related Definitions
[n] either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or gray (in the case of pigments); "yellow and blue are complementaries"
[adj] acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
[adj] of or relating to or suggestive of complementation; "interchangeable electric outlets"
[adj] of words so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"
Related Terms
analogous, answering, coequal, complemental, completing, completive, completory, consummative, consummatory, correspondent, corresponding, culminative, equipollent, equivalent, filling, fulfilling, homologous, perfective, reciprocal, reciprocative, tantam