Meaning & use
Complementing
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Completing or enhancing something by adding a quality or feature that it lacks.
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The mild sauce was complementing the spicy dish nicely, balancing the heat.
Her calm personality was complementing his more excitable nature perfectly.
A note on using this word
Complementing is frequently confused with 'complimenting' (praising someone); the spellings differ by just one letter but the meanings are unrelated.
Words with a similar meaning
enhancingrounding out
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Words with an opposite meaning
clashing with
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