fragmentary
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Synonyms
deficient, fragmental, half, halfway, incomplete, partial
Antonyms
complete, entire, full, intact, integral, perfect, whole
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Most other Gandharan scrolls known to scholars are more fragmentary. — Allen Kim, CNN, "A rare 2,000-year-old scroll about the early years of Buddhism is made public," 29 July 2019 At a press conference Monday, Police Chief Edward M. Davis released fragmentary details about what possibly has become the most celebrated murder investigation in California history. — Los Angeles Times, "From the Archives: Savage Mystic Cult Blamed for 5 Tate Murders, 6 Others," 28 July 2019 Shooting on 16-millimeter and 8-millimeter film, Allah has made a fleeting, fragmentary poetic collage that is also strangely complete. — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, "Our film critics pick the best movies of 2019 (so far)," 5 July 2019 Most of what’s known about the supercontinent comes from fragmentary pieces of its orogens: the edges of individual continental plates that crunched up, forming mountains, during massive collisions. — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, "Plate Tectonics: The Slow Dance of Our Planet's Crust," 12 June 2019 Further Reading Xbox Game Pass is coming to Windows 10, but many questions remain Ubisoft's move continues the fragmentary subscription battle playing out across the game industry. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, "UPlay+ subscription lets you play every Ubisoft game on PC and Stadia," 10 June 2019 The findings shed light on the local folklore and fragmentary scholarship surrounding the Carricks shipwreck, Côté said. — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, "A storm exposed children’s bones on a Canadian beach, reviving a 170-year-old mystery," 13 June 2019 The study documents some fragmentary marine fossils, including the teeth of ancient sharks, aquatic reptiles called mosasaurs, and an extinct type of mollusk called an ammonite. — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, "These fossils may capture the day the dinosaurs died. Here's what you should know.," 31 Mar. 2019 Hard to know; records are fragmentary and conflated with myth. — William Meyers, WSJ, "‘Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, Black’ Review: Out of Darkness," 14 Jan. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'fragmentary.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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