What is the difference between the words "whole" and "complete" in their meaning?

Answer 1

All noun: whole
1. All of something including all its component elements or parts
2. An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity

Adjective: whole
1. Including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
2. (of siblings) having the same parents
3. Including everything
4. Wholly unharmed
5. Not impaired or diminished in any way
6. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
7. Acting together as a single undiversified whole

Adverb: whole
1. To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly')

[WordWeb.info]f something including all its component elements or partsVerb: complete
1. Come or bring to a finish or an end
2. Bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements
3. Complete or carry out
4. Complete a pass
5. Write all the required information onto a form

Adjective: complete
1. Having every necessary or normal part or component or step
2. Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities
3. Highly skilled
4. Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
5. Having come or been brought to a conclusion

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Answer 2

Those are just words. What you are asking is their meaning. You cannot label a meaning of something into words. You lose the actual semantic value of these things when you have to describe them. Say you have a dream, and you try to describe that dream. Your description is different from what the listener is picturing because you give it simple words. So when you try to describe it, they are seeing something different. The Shapes guy above me has the right idea: put words into something simple for people to understand. However, you cannot see "whole" and you cannot touch "complete" and you cannot understand these things until you are one with the word itself. And to be whole or to be complete is to reach consciousness, and I doubt that somebody who asks definitions in the Philosophy section can even comprehend the meaning of pure consciousness.

Answer 3

Hi Sam, good to see you again!

Whole is something that is complete and without any missing part.

Complete is the state of finality that results in something being whole.

The difference is that a body is whole when it contains all of it's parts. When this happens, we call it complete.

"Whole" is the complete object. "Complete" is the mental construction that we label it as when we know it is without a missing part.

Answer 4

We as a whole on this planet are plenty but to complete this planet we are a few. Whole grasps the entirety and complete grasps the ending of a event or task.

Answer 5

the words whole and complete is similar but not quite the same.
while whole and complete may be used interchangablely to mean everything,only the word complete may be used to mean finished, but not the word whole.
i hope that you are learning something from this.
God bless,
gabe

Answer 6

Please get your self an English dictionary and also a thesaurus

YOu have a great deal to learn about making your questions make sense to those of us who speak English.

Don't you get tired of people NOT haveing a clue of what you are asking?? Seems it is best to reword things. Or find an english speaking person to help you wtih the questions.

Please. I tire of your questions that make little to no sense

Answer 7

1.Whole is without any limit.

Eg:He spent his whole life in that city.

2.Complete is with some limit.

Eg: I've completed today's work.

Answer 8

whole- treats the whole system in an infinite light.....suggesting that the nature of the wholeness is complex and connected.

complete- is a perception of limited comprehension, one that assumes 'we' can know the boundaries of something, that we can perceive all there is to know about it.

Answer 9

Not much.

Whole - Complete, including all parts or aspects, with nothing left out

Complete - Having every necessary part or everything that is wanted

Answer 10

complete means having every necessary part or everything that is wanted,having every necessary part or everything that is wanted,being the greatest degree of something

Whole means, not divided into parts or not regarded as consisting of separate elements, complete, including all parts or aspects, with nothing left out, not damaged or broken,not wounded, impaired, or incapacitated.