complementary
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 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)
yellow and blue are complementaries
Types & categories
- chromatic color hypernym
Sense 2 adjective
of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
`male' and `female' are complementary terms
Related & opposite
- antonymous similar to
Sense 3 adjective
acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
Related & opposite
- accompaniment derivation
- complement derivation
- full complement derivation
- complementarity derivation
- additive similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | chromatic color |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | antonymous |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | accompaniment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | complement |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | full complement |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | complementarity |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | additive |