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/kˌɑmpləmˈɛntri/ /kˌɑmpləmˈɛntʃi/ Listen

Complementary

adjective

Of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other.

Acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole). Synonyms: complemental, completing.

noun

Either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments). Synonym: complementary color.

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"Complementary" Quotes from Famous Books

... color makes objects near it take on the antagonistic or complementary color. Red makes objects near appear green, green makes them appear red. Blue makes near objects appear yellow, while yellow makes them appear blue. Orange induces greenish blue, and greenish blue induces ...

— The Science of Human Nature - A Psychology for Beginners • William Henry Pyle

... the most beautiful of Nature's winter exhibitions. Towards sundown the snow-capped ridges will sometimes be tinged with pink. And in a red sunset the winter trees will sometimes throw shadows of green, the complementary color, on the snow. ...

— Some Winter Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell

... exactly in the same manner in every place. It is best for the commerce of the spirit that people differently situated should bring their different products into the market of humanity, each of which is complementary and necessary to the others. All that I wish to say is that India at the outset of her career met with a special combination of circumstances which was not lost upon her. She had, according to her opportunities, thought ...

— Sadhana - The Realisation of Life • Rabindranath Tagore

... this very problem of human motives in modern economic society. Noteworthy exceptions are the remarkable series of books by Veblen, the articles and criticisms of Mitchell and Patten, and the most significant small book by Taussig, entitled 'Inventors and Money-makers.' It is this complementary field of psychology to which the economists must turn, as these writers have turned, for a vitalization of their basic hypotheses. There awaits them a bewildering array of studies of the motives, emotions, and folkways of our pecuniary civilization. ...

— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker

... environment who procreate most copiously, most recklessly and most disastrously. Such marriage laws are based for the most part on the infantile assumption that procreation is absolutely dependent upon the marriage ceremony, an assumption usually coupled with the complementary one that the only purpose in marriage is procreation. Yet it is a fact so obvious that it is hardly worth stating that the most fertile classes who indulge in the most dysgenic type of procreating—the feeble-minded—are ...

— The Pivot of Civilization • Margaret Sanger

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