English Explanatory Dictionary

apart

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
  2. Separately, exclusively, not together.
  3. In or into two or more parts.
  4. To the side; aside.
postp
  1. Excluded from consideration.
adj
  1. Exceptional, distinct.
  2. Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.
  3. Separate, on the side.

Pronunciation

/əˈpɑːt/ /əˈpɑɹt/ ə-pärt′ en-us-apart.ogg

Word forms

apart more apart further apart farther apart most apart furthest apart farthest apart

Etymology

From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).

Synonyms

independently separately absolutely abstractedly abstractly apart discretely individually properly serely severally singly sunderling sunderly together uniquely asunder in twain half and half in sunder piecemeal aside

Antonyms

together

Derived words

a breed apart apart from apartness blow apart break apart come apart drift apart fall apart fly apart grow apart pick apart poles apart pull apart pull-apart rip apart set apart stand apart take apart tear apart tease apart tell apart worlds apart
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