Rounded; arched.

An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.

Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.

To pity.

Deserving compassion or pity; pitiable.

To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.

In a compassionate manner; mercifully.

The quality or state of being compassionate.

Having no compass.

The relation of a godfather to a person.

The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.

Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with.

Compatibility; consistency; fitness; agreement.

In a compatible manner.

Suffering or enduring together.

Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.

The condition of being compatriots.

To appear.

To be equal with; to match.

See Compear.

To make one yield or submit.

Capable of being compelled or constrained.

By compulsion.

Style of address or salutation; an appellation.

The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

Serving to compel; compulsory.

One who compels or constrains.

A compendium; an epitome; a summary.

Short; compendious.

To sum or collect together.

Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.

In a compendious manner.

The state or quality of being compendious.

A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.

receiving money for services rendered.

To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

receiving or eligible for compensation.

The act or principle of compensating.

Compensation.

One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.

Serving for compensation; making amends.

To compensate.

To delay.

To hold in check; to restrain.

To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.

The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.

Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.

In a competent manner; adequately; suitably.

Compatible; suitable; consistent.

The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.

Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.

an agressive willingness to compete.

One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.

Acting in competition; competing; rival.

A woman who competes.

A competitress.

The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.

Compiler.

To put together; to construct; to build.

Compilation.

To compress; to shut up.

Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification.

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.

Marked by, or causing, complacence.

In a complacent manner.

To lament; to bewail.

That may be complained of.

One who makes complaint.

One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.

uttering complaints. Opposite of uncomplaining.

Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.

Full of complaint.

Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility.

Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman.

See Coplanar.

To make level.

Complexioned.

To supply a lack; to supplement.

Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.

One skilled in compliments.

the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate.

To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.

brought to a conclusion.

In a complete manner; fully.

Act of completing or perfecting; completion.

The state of being complete.

serving to complete.

The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.

Making complete.

Same as Compline.

Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.

Complex, complicated.

The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication.

The state of being complex; complexity.

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.

Constitutionally.

Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it.

Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person.

The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.

In a complex manner; not simply.

The state of being complex; complexity.

A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.

Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant.

The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.

Compliance; disposition to yield to others.

Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.

In a compliant manner.

A state of being complicate or intricate.

Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.

To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.

In a complex manner.

Complexity.

the act or process of making something more complex.

The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.

An accomplice.

The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.

One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper.

To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.

Complimentary.

Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket.