Complementary
complementary (adjective) - things that are different from each other but make a good combination (can also mean "free")
complementary goods
complementary products
a complementary service
complementary to other services on the market
complementary work
mutually complementary
complementary colours
complementary roles
complementary strategies
complementary concepts
complementary reforms
complementary therapies
a complementary activity
tourism as a complementary activity to seasonal farming
conventional medicine versus complementary medicine
competing rather than complementary
different but complementary abilities
do not fall into neatly discernible complementary categories
Example sentences:
* The computer and the human mind have different but complementary abilities.
* Candlemakers might do well to explore the possibility of offering a complete "candlelight experience" and producing and marketing complementary products as well.
* Homeopathy is gaining in popularity as more people discover the benefits of alternative or complementary medicine.
* The two aims of increasing productivity and redistribution that have permeated agrarian thinking have often been seen as competing rather than complementary.
* Complementary colours are generally blended with the basic pinks in a subtle and sensitive way, without any strong contrasts.
* Seasonality makes tourism ideal as a complementary activity to low-output farming.
* It has polarised popular opinion such that sick people tend to use only conventional medicine or complementary medicine, thus failing to reap the benefits of knowledge which could help them.
* Yoga also highlights the need for investigating the preventive as well as the curative effects of complementary therapies.
* Concentration and relaxation are complementary.
* One of the main communications challenges will be achieving an understanding by everyone in C&P of Market focus, Mike Brogden thinks that market Focus and quality are totally complementary concepts.
* While to some extent the harmful and the helpful beings in the Chewong universe can be thought of as opposed, they do not fall into neatly discernible complementary categories.
A moment's thought, however, demonstrates that these three main aims are not necessarily mutually complementary, they could even be mutually contradictory.
* In practice, then, these explanatory models can be either antagonistic or complementary.
* The relatively cumbersome medium of microfilm has never presented the sort of opportunities now presented by digitisation, for bringing together collections of complementary material which have been physically separated for decades or even centuries.
* In spite of promising prospects for the future, it has so far been a complementary course, to be undertaken in addition to the main course of study.
* We identified four pairs of complementary roles commonly adopted by teachers and parents in their encounters with each other.
* In 1913 the Imperial Bureau of Entomology was established to survey the field of plant pests and the success of this venture led, in 1919, to the founding of a complementary bureau to cover diseases of plants.
