1
[ adverb ] in part; in some degree; not wholly

Synonyms

partly part

Examples

"I felt partly to blame" "He was partially paralyzed"

Used in print

(Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)

An area may have been partially logged and requires removal of stumps or clean_up .

(Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)

Piddington and Minnett explained their observations by pointing_out that rocklike materials which are likely to make_up the surface of the moon would be partially transparent to radio_waves , although opaque to infrared_radiation .

Recent interferometer measurements ( Radhakrishnan and Roberts , 1960 ) have shown the 960 - Mc emission of Jupiter to be partially polarized and to originate_in a region of larger diameter than the visible disk .

(Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)

Just before leaving the arroyo where he was partially concealed , he did hear shots down at the house .

Related terms

wholly partial part partial

*

Rhymes with

impartially proportionally harshly heartily racially forcefully crucially cordially specially actually especially dorsally clumsily socially circumstantially financially substantially commercially internationally exceptionally rationally nationally irrationally horizontally artfully abnormally informally specially judicially confidentially essentially beneficially unofficially initially exponentially preferentially eventually potentially artificially officially provincially actually mortally formally normally editorially territorially broccoli superficially wobbly bodily homily proportionally historically nationally internationally irrationally rationally professionally functionally unintentionally unconstitutionally unconditionally conventionally constitutionally operationally educationally institutionally nutritionally traditionally intentionally additionally conditionally especially sloppily purposefully royally tactfully functionally peacefully personally satisfactorily oligopoly monopoly anomaly emotionally electrically metrically diametrically theatrically unilaterally bilaterally supremely delightfully sheepishly semiannually scantily frightfully symbolically philosophically electronically substantially orally periodically circumstantially methodically sardonically chronically comically regally casually statutorily magically diagonally technologically professionally traditionally jauntily exceptionally unconstitutionally educationally unconditionally emotionally operationally wrongfully institutionally nutritionally gravitationally additionally conditionally thoughtfully wishfully unintentionally frugally crazily fiscally blissfully successfully manfully gracefully sicily unsuccessfully rightfully empirically usually phenomenally angrily casually nominally naturally gradually handily hungrily thankfully unnaturally diastole arbitrarily easily pragmatically emphatically typically geographically skeptically mathematically fanatically dramatically frantically ruefully readily awfully sully locally morally vocally contractually structurally factually preferentially tangentially potentially exponentially sequentially individually confidentially playfully painfully usefully speedily deliciously testily gully hastily brutally developmentally tripoli greedily gravelly universally italy eerily

Phonetic and Homophones

P AA1 R SH L IY0 parshley
P AA1 R SH AH0 L IY0

Similar Spelling

partial partiality partial_veil partly party_wall partialness partial_tone parrotlike

To share this definition click "text" (Facebook, Twitter) or "link" (blog, mail) then paste
text link