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fragmentary
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Fragmentary
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frag·men·tar·y
/
ˈfræg
mənˌtɛr
i
/
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frag
-m
uh
n-ter-ee
]
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adjective
consisting of or reduced to
fragments
; broken; disconnected; incomplete:
fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
Origin:
1605–15;
fragment
+
-ary
Related forms
frag·men·tar·i·ly,
adverb
frag·men·tar·i·ness,
noun
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fragmentary
(ˈfræɡməntərɪ, -trɪ)
—
adj
Also:
fragmental
made up of fragments; disconnected; incomplete
'fragmentarily
—
adv
'fragmentariness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
fragmentary
1835 (with an isolated use in Donne from 1611), from
fragment
+
-ary
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
The past is too great, and has come down to us in too
fragmentary
a manner, for
such coincidences to be probable.
Information about these events was
fragmentary
, however, and many questions
were left unanswered.
Skylark received several
fragmentary
, garbled messages, followed by silence.
All but a few
fragmentary
episodes of her own long life remain unchronicled.
But these collections are
fragmentary
and loosely organized.
Frank had witnessed the killing, but only has a few
fragmentary
clues to go by.
The premise is that because life is
fragmentary
, art must be.
Only a few scattered and
fragmentary
fossils older than two million years have been argued to belong to the genus.
After generations of poverty and oppression, the orally transmitted songs and histories had become
fragmentary
.
But these only offer a
fragmentary
glimpse of the damage and never show its full extent.
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