Word Meanings - FRAGMENTARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Composed of the fragments of other rocks. (more info) 1. Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire. Donne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRAGMENTARY)

• Odd
• Alone
• sole
• unmatched
• remaining
• over
• fragmentary
• uneven
• singular
• peculiar
• queer
• quaint
• fantastical
• uncommon
• nondescript

Related words: (words related to FRAGMENTARY)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• QUEERISH
  Rather queer; somewhat singular.
• ALONENESS
  A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. Bp. Montagu.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• REMAIN
  re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, 1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• UNEVEN
  1. Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground. 2. Not equal; not of equal length. Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. Peacham. 3. Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3,
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• FANTASTICAL
  Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
• QUAINT
  pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for 1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer. 2. Characterized
• QUEERNESS
  The quality or state of being queer.
• NONDESCRIPT
  Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.
• SINGULARITY
  1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of
• ALONE
  1. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18. 2. Of or by itself; by themselves;
• REMAINDER
  The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction. (more info) 1. Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant. "The last remainders of unhappy Troy." Dryden. If these
• QUAINTISE
  1. Craft; subtlety; cunning. Chaucer. R. of Glouces. 2. Elegance; beauty. Chaucer.
• REMAINDER-MAN
  One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3. Blackstone.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• ACQUAINTED
  Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
• DISACQUAINT
  To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• ABALONE
  A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• PREACQUAINT
  To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.
• ACQUAINTEDNESS
  State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. Boyle.