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Definition of fragmentary:
Synonyms:
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component (part of speech: adjective)
- factoring,
- constituent,
- sectional,
- fractional,
- part,
- ingredient,
- elemental,
- member,
- featured,
- component,
- segmentary
- incomplete (part of speech: adjective)
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separate (part of speech: adjective)
- disintegrated,
- disassembled,
- sundered,
- separate,
- individual,
- autonomous,
- dissociated,
- alienated,
- disconnected,
- disjoint,
- unglued,
- independent,
- distinct,
- detached,
- unrelated,
- severed,
- unaffiliated,
- disaffiliated
- fractional (part of speech: adjective)
Usage examples:
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She was an extremely well- designed young woman, in a rather fragmentary costume, and she was heaving her bosom at the invisible audience in anger, sorrow, scorn, entreaty, and numerous other emotions.
- "Last Enemy", Henry Beam Piper. -
There is yet another which completes and crowns the character,- constancy of purpose; and it is only in considering his course as a whole, that we see how harmonious and consistent have been that life and its labours, which, in a partial and brief view, might be supposed to have been somewhat desultory and fragmentary.
- "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)", Isaac D'Israeli. -
The existing systems were so fragmentary, defective, and inadequate that a new and comprehensive organization had to be created.
- "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various.