noun🔗ShareA complementary colour.""In art class, we learned that blue is a complementary colour to orange." "colorartChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareOne skilled in compliments."My grandmother, always quick with a kind word, was a true complementary. "characterpersonlanguagewordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees."In geometry class, Maria learned that a 30-degree angle has a complementary of 60 degrees. "mathChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareActing as a complement; making up a whole with something else."The red and blue paint colors are complementary, creating a beautiful, vibrant mural. "partfunctionsystemqualityChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareOf the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA."Adenine is a complementary base to thymine in DNA. "biologybiochemistryorganismstructureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗SharePertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)"The student's understanding of complementary concepts like speed and accuracy in their math homework was a challenge. "physicstheoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
