Not finished; not complete; not brought to an end; imperfect; wanting the last hand or touch; as an unfinished house; an unfinished painting.
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Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.
Incompleteness Roget’s Thesaurus §53
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
Noncompletion Roget’s Thesaurus §730
N. noncompletion, nonfulfillment, shortcoming #, incompleteness, drawn battle, drawn game, work of penelope, nonperformance, inexecution, neglect
V. not complete, leave unfinished, leave undone, drop, put down, neglect, let alone, let slip, lose sight of (forget) 506, fall short of, do things by halves, parboil, scotch the snake not lull it, hang fire, be slow to, collapse, drop out
Adj. not completed, incomplete, uncompleted, unfinished, unaccomplished, unperformed, unexecuted, sketchy, addle, in progress, in hand, ongoing, going on, proceeding, on one's hands, on the anvil, in the fire, in the oven, parboiled, half-baked
Adv. re infecta
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