Meanings
verbautocomplete (third-person singular simple present autocompletes, present participle autocompleting, simple past and past participle autocompleted)
present singular third person autocompletes · participle present autocompleting · participle past autocompleted · past autocompleted
- computingTo complete automatically.
nounautocomplete (uncountable)
- uncountablecomputingA software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.
Tools like spellcheck, autocomplete, and speech-to-text impose someone's ideas of the rules of English automatically—invisible authorities that we can defy but not avoid.
2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 2, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Hellenic*autós
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
- Ancient Greekαὖ (aû)
- Ancient Greekτόν (tón)
- Ancient Greekαὐτός (autós)
- Ancient Greekαὐτο- (auto-)
- Proto-Indo-European*mn̥tós
- Proto-Hellenic*mətós
- Ancient Greekαὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos)
- Ancient Greekαὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)
- Classical Latinautomatum
- New Latinautomaticus
- Englishautomaticclip.
- Englishauto-
- Middle Englishcompleet
- Englishcomplete
- Englishautocomplete
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 自動完成 /自动完成, 自動完成 /自动完成
- 自動完成 /自动完成 (zìdòng wánchéng)complete automatically
- 自動完成 /自动完成 (zìdòng wánchéng)feature
Finnish täyttää automaattisesti, automaattinen täyttö
- täyttää automaattisesticomplete automatically
- automaattinen täyttöfeature
French autocompléter, autocomplétion
- autocomplétercomplete automatically
- autocomplétionfeature
German Textvervollständigung, Autovervollständigung
- Textvervollständigungfeature
- Autovervollständigungfeature
Greek αυτοσυμπλήρωση
- αυτοσυμπλήρωση (aftosymplírosi)feature
Italian completamento automatico, completare automaticamente
- completamento automaticocomplete automatically
- completare automaticamentefeature
Portuguese autocompletar
- autocompletarcomplete automatically
Russian автодополнение
- автодополнение (avtodopolnenije)feature
Spanish autocompletar, autocompletado
- autocompletarcomplete automatically
- autocompletadofeature
Swedish prediktiv textinmatning
- prediktiv textinmatningfeature
Cite this entry
APA
autocomplete. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autocomplete
MLA
“autocomplete.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autocomplete. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “autocomplete,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autocomplete.
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