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Another word for partial

Adjective

  1. Relating to or affecting only a part; not total

    2. See also:

    part

  2. Disposed to favor one over another

    3. See also:

    fair

  3. Exhibiting bias

    4. See also:

    straight

    like

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Another word for partial

Modifier

  1. Not complete

    2. See also:

    unfinished

  2. Showing favoritism

    3. See also:

    prejudiced

Idioms:

    be partial to

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Sentence Examples

  • Such cell-fusions may be partial or complete.

  • Jones with partial agnosticism.

  • The restored state of Jerusalem lived for about six centuries in partial independence under Persian, Egyptian, Syrian and Roman rule, often showing an aggressively heroic attachment to its national customs, which brought it into collision with its suzerains, until the temple was destroyed by Titus in A.D.

  • "White" elephants are partial or complete albinos, and are far from uncommon in Burma and Siam.

  • Dummler (1877), and a partial translation into German, with an introduction b y W.

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