N. incompleteness,
deficiency, short # measure,
shortcoming,
insufficiency, imperfection,
immaturity, half measures, defect,
deficit,
defalcation,
omission,
caret,
shortage, interval, break, noncompletion, missing link, missing piece, missing part,
gap, hole,
lacuna V. be incomplete, fall short of, lack, neglect
Adj. incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, uncompleted &c. (see complete ), defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing, in default, in arrear, short of, hollow,
meager,
lame, halfand-half,
perfunctory,
sketchy, crude,
mutilated,
garbled,
docked,
lopped,
truncated, in progress, in hand, going on, proceeding
Adv. incompletely, by halves
Phr. caetera desunt,
caret