Fragmentary meaning

frăg'mən-tĕr'ē
Consisting of small, disconnected parts.

A picture that emerges from fragmentary information.

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Consisting of fragments; not complete; disconnected.
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Fragmentary evidence suggests that he died in a foreign country.

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(geology) Composed of the fragments of other rocks.
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Origin of fragmentary

fragment +‎ -ary

Sentence Examples

  • It gave unity to the detached and fragmentary parts of his knowledge and beliefs.

  • The chief source of interest in the fragmentary remains of Naevius,.

  • External history, however, is very fragmentary just at the age when its evidence would be most welcome.

  • Lastly, a fragmentary chronicle of the 1st Babylonian Dynasty mentions an invasion of Akkad by them about 1800 B.C.

  • adequate and vivid) from obscure, fragmentary and incoherent conceptions.

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