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partial
[ pahr-shuhl ]
adjective
- being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: a partial payment of a debt.
partial blindness;
a partial payment of a debt.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms:
- biased or prejudiced in favor of a person, group, side, etc., over another, as in a controversy:
a partial witness.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms: ,
- pertaining to or affecting a part.
Antonyms:
- being a part; component; constituent.
- Botany. secondary or subordinate:
a partial umbel.
noun
- Bridge. part-score.
- Acoustics, Music. partial tone.
partial
/ ˈɑːʃə /
adjective
- relating to only a part; not general or complete
a partial eclipse
- biased
a partial judge
- postpositivefoll byto having a particular liking (for)
- botany
- constituting part of a larger structure
a partial umbel
- used for only part of the life cycle of a plant
a partial habitat
- (of a parasite) not exclusively parasitic
- maths designating or relating to an operation in which only one of a set of independent variables is considered at a time
noun
- Also calledpartial tone music acoustics any of the component tones of a single musical sound, including both those that belong to the harmonic series of the sound and those that do not
- maths a partial derivative
Usage
Derived Forms
- ˈ貹پԱ, noun
- ˈ貹پ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- 貹·پ· adverb
- 貹·پ·Ա noun
- ԴDz·貹·پ adjective
- ··貹·پ adjective
- o·ver·貹·پ·Ա noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of partial1
Idioms and Phrases
- partial to, having a liking or preference for; particularly fond of:
I'm partial to chocolate cake.
Example Sentences
But one twin's diagnosis with acrania — a rare, fatal congenital disorder characterized by the full or partial absence of cranial bones — sent Brandt's world into a grief-stricken tailspin.
I’m partial to the former, in part because it features the only overtly political character Wodehouse ever devised.
But in a partial win for Google, antitrust enforcers failed to prove that the company held a monopoly in advertiser ad networks, the judge found.
Unite said the city council's "partial" offer was "totally inadequate" and did not address the potential pay cuts for 200 drivers.
However, Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said the deal represented "a partial deal on pay protection for a few" and the striking bin workers were "in the driving seat around what they wish to accept".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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