Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fragmentarily

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English

Syllables: frag-men-tar-i-ly
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a fragmentary manner.

Example Sentences

"So he got his flute, propped up the book against a vase, and played the tune, whilst she hummed it fragmentarily."
"In the working-class quarters the barricades were being pulled down, rather fragmentarily, for it is a lot easier to build a barricade than to put the stones back."
"Two were ramshackle old men—droolers as toothless as carp. They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead."

Etymology

From fragmentary + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: fragmentary

Inflected Forms

more fragmentarily (comparative) most fragmentarily (superlative)

Questions

What does fragmentarily mean?: In a fragmentary manner.
Where does fragmentarily come from?: From fragmentary + -ly.

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