particularly
/pɚˈtɪkjəlɚli/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.96 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
adv
adv
Example Sentences
- "The apéritifs were particularly stimulating."
- "We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner."
- "One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence."
- "But as the half progressed, Liverpool's pressure and high-tempo passing game increased United's frustration and it threatened to boil over on the stroke of half-time when Van Persie, who had already been booked, was involved in angry verbal exchanges with several Liverpool players, particularly Gerrard."
- "[Montana Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all."
- "'That is quite right,' agreed Myra. 'We allow the milkman to come in at the front gate and go to the side door, to save him carrying his can right round the other way. No one else came; I asked Chloe particularly.'"
Etymology
Etymology tree English particular Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English particularly From particular + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɚˈtɪkjəlɚli/
- British English: /pəˈtɪkjələli/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
above all
first and foremost
primarily
exceedingly
greatly: see also Thesaurus:very
in particular
detailly
thoroughly
exacting
fastidiously
pedantically
pickily