UNCOMPLETED Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

uncompleted

adjective

Definition of uncompleted

as in unfinished

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Recent Examples of uncompleted In some cases, bold new projects have ended with buildings being returned to their previous states and uses, others remain uncompleted, and an unfortunate few have been condemned to be demolished. — Alberto Piernas Medina, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025 When Taofeek was taken from us in 1999, his school uniform, bag, and shoes were discovered by what was then an uncompleted building. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 Given his erratic career, punctuated by long hiatuses and abounding in uncompleted, delayed, and jinxed projects—his filmography teems with the abject terms inachevé and non tourné (unfinished and unmade)—the final verdict remains inconclusive. — James Quandt, The New York Review of Books, 31 July 2025 And along the north wall of the cloister, in a space that was once the nun’s refectory, is the most famous, albeit uncompleted, work of art in all of San Miguel de Allende—a powerful abstract mural by both David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of Mexico’s most famous muralists, and his students. — Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2017 See All Example Sentences for uncompleted

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The film centers on Sebastián (singer Guitarricadelafuente), Carlos (Milo Quifes), and Alberto (Carlos González)—three gay men living in 1932, 1937, and 2017, respectively—who are connected by one of Lorca’s unfinished plays, La Bola Negra.

— Elaina Patton, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2026
Not long ago, she and Peter Koskey got married, with the unfinished house as their wedding chapel.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of unfinished

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And when records are incomplete, modern tools have the ability to impute missing values and attach a confidence score to each estimate, so the person reviewing the output sees both the conclusion and the margin of uncertainty around it.

— Amanda Turcotte, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Documentation can be incomplete, and essential business rules may exist only in the original code.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

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