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fragmentary

fragmentary adjective: consisting of fragments; disconnected; scattered.

Adjective

fragmentary (comparative more fragmentary, superlative most fragmentary)

  1. Consisting of fragments; disconnected; scattered.
    • Fragmentary evidence suggests that he died in a foreign country.
    • Of this empire less is known than of other domains. From time to time, fragmentary knowledge has been carried thence by some observant traveler.1868, Overland Monthly, Samuel Carson, page 204
  2. Composed of the fragments of other rocks.

fragmentary meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

fragmentary in Malayalam

തുണ്ടുതുണ്ടായ, അപൂർണ്ണമായ, വിട്ടുനില്ക്കുന്ന, പൂർത്തിയാകാത്ത

fragmentary in Kannada

ಅಪೂರ್ಣ, ಅಸಮಗ್ರ, ಅಸಂಬದ್ಧ, ಚೂರು ಪಾರಾಗಿರುವ, ಛಿದ್ರವಾಗಿರುವ, ಹರುಕು ಮುರುಕಾದ

Examples of fragmentary in a sentence

  • This fragmentary front panel of a sarcophagus preserves two episodes from the story of Endymion and Selene.
  • Licensed to Caius Aninius Fortunatus’ etc., as the faint and fragmentary Latin seems to say.
  • Such huge behavioural change depends on knowledge sharing on a pan-species scale, rather than on fragmentary technofixes.

All 11 example sentences with fragmentary

Synonyms of fragmentary

Antonyms

Forms of fragmentary

comparativemore fragmentary
superlativemost fragmentary

Origin of fragmentary

From fragment + -ary.

Words formed from fragmentary

Questions about fragmentary

What does fragmentary mean?
Fragmentary means consisting of fragments; disconnected; scattered.
What is fragmentary in Malayalam?
Fragmentary in Malayalam is തുണ്ടുതുണ്ടായ, അപൂർണ്ണമായ, വിട്ടുനില്ക്കുന്ന. See Fragmentary meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is fragmentary?
Fragmentary is an adjective.

Words near fragmentary in the dictionary

  1. fragmentally
  2. fragmentals
  3. fragmentarily
  4. fragmentariness
  5. fragmentarism
  6. fragmentary
  7. fragmentate
  8. fragmentated
  9. fragmentating
  10. fragmentation
  11. fragmentation bomb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fragmentary (page history and authors); fragmentary (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fragmentary (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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