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Pronunciation
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- /ˈpɑːtli/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpɑɹtli/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Old French partirbor. Middle English parten English part Middle English -ly English -ly English partly From part + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In part, or to some degree, but not completely.
Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.
2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2-2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2024:Will the great and mighty United States of America, the oldest democracy in the world, celebrating its 250th birthday this July, be demoted to “partly free”? I don’t know. But the mere fact that we even have to ask this question is chilling.
2026 March 16, Michael Tomasky, “A Big Announcement Is Coming This Week. Americans Should Be Nervous.”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2026:They had partly finished the house, so they could move in before winter.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021, page 48:The car was partly visible in the garage.
Clara's cultural cache soon gave way to Betty Boop, the iconic cartoon flapper created partly in her image by animator Grim Natwick.
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
Antonyms
from head to toe · purely · detailly · in full · handsomely · from top to toe · particularly · first and last · lock · flat out · cap-a-pie · right · downright · from the rooter to the tooter · to the full · well and truly · categorically · finally · altogether · to the bone · all the way · hook · top to tail · straight up · flat-out · exhaustively · at length · head to tail · quite · from A to Z · from stem to stern · through and through · line · out-and-out · cold · absolutely · out and out · from aardvark to zymurgy · totally · plumb · to the core · root and branch · stark · utterly · stock · whole cloth · whole · outright · soup-to-nuts · blind · perfectly · stone-cold · and barrel · one hundred percent · head to toe · soundly · properly · and sinker · all-out · at large · in detail · top to toe · entirely · completely · heartily · from top to bottom · head to foot · fully · from soup to nuts · tout à fait · totes · wholly
Relateds
Synonyms
to an extent · somedeal · incompletely · partly · imperfectly · somewhat · partially · feckly · to some extent · partwise · unfully · in part
Translations (36)
uk частко́во (in part) · de zum Teil (in part) · he חלקי (in part) · de teilweise (in part) · ru отча́сти (in part) · es en cierto modo (in part) · be частко́ва (in part) · bg отчасти (in part) · cs částečně (in part) · ja 一部 (in part) · hy մասամբ (in part) · la partim (in part) · cmn 部分地 (in part) · es en parte (in part) · bg частично (in part) · mk делумно (in part) · pt em parte (in part) · sk sčasti (in part) · pl w części (in part) · nl deels (in part) · hu részben (in part) · uk поча́сти (in part) · sv dels (in part) · pdt deelwiess (in part) · da delvis (in part) · fi osittain (in part) · fr en partie (in part) · nl gedeeltelijk (in part) · el εν μέρει (in part) · ru части́чно (in part) · pl po części (in part) · sk čiastočne (in part) · eo parte (in part) · el μερικώς (in part) · pl częściowo (in part) · ja 部分的に (in part)