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The definition of complementary is someone or something that completes or makes someone or something better.

(adjective)

An example of complementary is drinking red wine with an Italian meal.

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See complementary in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

acting as a complement; completing
making up what is lacking in one another

Also complemental

See complementary in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Forming or serving as a complement; completing.
Supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks.
Genetics Of or relating to a group of genes that act in concert to produce a specific phenotype.
Biochemistry Of or relating to the specific pairing of the purines and pyrimidines between strands of a DNA or an RNA molecule.

Related Forms:

comˌple·menˈta·ri·ly (-tə-rə-lē, -trə-lē, -mĕn-târˈə-lē) adverb

comˌple·menˈta·ri·ness noun

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