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fragmentary Definition

frag·men·tary (fragmən ter′ē, frag mentə rē)

adjective

consisting of fragments; not complete; disconnected

fragmentary Related Forms
frag·men·tar′i·ly adverb frag·men·tar′i·ness noun
fragmentary Synonyms

fragmentary

modif.

broken, incomplete, disconnected, sketchy; see broken 1, fractional.

fragmentary Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • too: The original cloak is too fragmentary to prove the point.
  • extremely: Records of prehistoric tsunamis for the Pacific West Coast of Canada and USA prior to 1700 AD are extremely fragmentary.
  • rather: Compared with the rather fragmentary evidence for their arable farming, the pastoral aspect of things is fully recorded.
  • highly: A highly fragmentary example from Rochford was accompanied by a string of amber beads some covered with gold leaf.
  • often: Point out that scientific evidence is often fragmentary with pieces of the puzzle missing.
  • very: The number of stray dogs whom the police will catch cannot be estimated from the returns which are very fragmentary.

Infinitive complement

  • allow: No rims survive and the surviving sherds are too fragmentary to allow the form to be reconstructed.

Modifies a noun

  • loomweights: A minimum number of thirty-five fragmentary loomweights were identified during assessment, although many more are likely to be represented.
  • approx: Make the enemy cower before you, lest he rip open your back like a sack, 4 lines fragmentary approx.
  • inscription: Two of the stones forming the seats carry fragmentary inscriptions.
  • glimpse: The fragmentary glimpses of the creature force the audience to use their imagination.
  • manuscript: The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music A project to digitize and enhance images of fragmentary manuscripts of medieval polyphonic music.
  • nature: In part the problem lies in the fragmentary nature of the subject matter.

Used with adjective complement

  • remain: Yet in spite of a sizeable literature on the cultural history of this period, our understanding of these developments has nonetheless remained fragmentary.
  • become: The reader is expected to keep far too many significant details in mind, and the narrative becomes more fragmentary, less coherent.

Preposition: in

  • other: Primary sources, numbingly copious in some areas, are scarce and fragmentary in others.

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