| a. | 1. | Serving to fill out or to complete;
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| n. | 1. | One skilled in compliments. | ||||||
| Noun | 1. | 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" Synonyms: complementary color |
| Adj. | 1. | complementary - acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) Synonyms: complemental, completing |
| 2. | complementary - of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms" | |
| 3. | complementary - of or relating to or suggestive of complementation; "interchangeable electric outlets" Synonyms: interchangeable, reciprocal |