fragmentary
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- adjective
- /ˈfræɡ.mənˌtɛr.i/
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fragmentario
- Her recollections of the event were fragmentary, making it difficult to piece together what really happened.
- fragmentary evidence
- fragmentary nature
- fragmentary information
His comments were occasional, fragmentary, dispersed.
- His comments were occasional, fragmentary, dispersed.
- That's what we have and it's rather fragmentary.
- Again, you know, there's so much to this, and a lot of it is dealt with in a rather fragmentary way in these two volumes.
- Another thing I need to point out is the, the works that are fragmentary or incomplete, they're the best copies we have.
Examples
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The visual elements of my memories are as fleeting, fragmentary, and untrustworthy as what I can see today.
Academic text (2008) -
Silva reconstructs Oba's life and thought by gleaning fragmentary evidence, most of it from an ephemeral newspaper, O Carbonario.
Academic text (1997) -
To at least some degree, the book is fragmentary by default rather than design.
Academic text (1998) -
The students' knowledge about environmental problems was fragmentary and often incorrect, however.
Academic text (1999) -
We'll be discussing the fragmentary Middle English version in detail; the text for that is available.
Fiction book (1991) -
Here we find a sequence of more fragmentary notes on further items from the Darby collection.
Academic text (2012) -
Again, you know, there's so much to this, and a lot of it is dealt with in a rather fragmentary way in these two volumes.
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Objective minutes, gauged by the fragmentary movements of the sun, seemed to drip by like hours.
Fiction book (2002) -
The novel is also emblematic of the fragmentary narrative style for which many of Khoury's novels are known.
Academic text (2017) -
Yet even the most inventive version remains fragmentary, provisional, and ambiguous.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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3.4
Not complete and only in some parts
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4.4
Not whole because it is broken into separate parts
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6.5
Having breaks or gaps, for example a line that stops and starts
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3.6
Not in order and difficult to understand or use
Having small separate parts that are not complete
Made of separate parts that do not touch each other
A system with separate parts that work on their own
Relating to separate speech sounds like vowels and consonants
Antonyms
How Fragmented
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Etymology
The word fragmentary comes from the common word fragment, which means 'a broken piece'. So fragmentary describes something made of small, incomplete parts, not whole or complete.