Meaning

2 senses
  1. Consisting of fragments; disconnected; scattered.

    Fragmentary evidence suggests that he died in a foreign country.

    fragmentarisch

    фрагментарныйfragmentarnyj, отрывочныйotryvočnyj

    consisting of small disconnected parts

  2. Composed of the fragments of other rocks.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Sappho's surviving works are mostly fragmentary.

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  2. The evidence for this is fragmentary and could have other interpretations.

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  3. Data from the many parts of this fragmentary telescope are combined to form a single image.

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  4. What we know of the game's lore is assembled from numerous fragmentary snippets of text found in item descriptions, dialog, and cutscenes.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
consisting of fragments:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
consisting of fragments:

Forms

more fragmentary, most fragmentary
Comparativemore fragmentary Lesson
Superlativemost fragmentary Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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