Adjective complementary has 3 senses
- complemental, complementary, completing - acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
Antonym: essential (indirect, via inessential)
- complementary - of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"
Antonym: synonymous (indirect, via antonymous)
- complementary, interchangeable, reciprocal - of or relating to or suggestive of complementation; "interchangeable electric outlets"
Antonym: nonreciprocal (indirect, via reciprocal)
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Noun complementary has 1 sense
- complementary color, complementary - either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or gray (in the case of pigments); "yellow and blue are complementaries"
--1 is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
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