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.

One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by 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.

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.

Complimentary.

One who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer.

The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.

To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.

A plotting together.

One joined in a plot.

Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.

A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.

To fulfill; to accomplish.

pr. p. of comply.

Short for Composition; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; A mortar made of sand and cement. A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices. A composition for billiard balls. A preparation of which printer's rollers are made. A preparation used in currying leather. Composition paid by a debtor.

See Compony.

Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.

A constituent part; an ingredient.

Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.

Suitable; consistent.

Behavior; comport.

A bringing together.

Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.

Sane in mind; being of sound mind, memory, and understanding.

One who is compos mentis.

To come to terms.

Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.

One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.

Tending to compose or soothe.

A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.

That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.

The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients. The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music. The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below. The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc. The setting up of type and arranging it for printing.

Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.

One who composes or sets in order.

Belonging to the Composit/; composite.

Able to exist with another thing; consistent.

To manure with compost.

Manure; compost.

The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.

The act of drinking or tippling together.

One who drinks with another.

A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears.

A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.; a compote dish, or compote{2}.

That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.

That may be compounded.

combined into or constituting a chemical compound.

One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.

the act of combining things.

A kind of steward or agent.

A praying together.

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

able to be understood. Opposite of incomprehensible.

The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.

Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.