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Piecemeal synonyms and antonyms

pēs'mēl'

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intermittent
Stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant
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piece-by-piece
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completely (antonym)
bit by bit
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top-down (related)
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step-by-step
In detail, describing each step precisely and in order.
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gradually (related)
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aliquot
The definition of aliquot is of a part of medicine or chemicals, or a number that divides another number evenly.
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fractional
(Chemistry) Relating to a process or product of fractional distillation.
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fractionary
(Obsolete) fractional
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fragmentary
Consisting of small, disconnected parts:
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gradual
The definition of gradual is something that changes or progresses slowly or over time.
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partly
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spotty
Having or marked with spots; spotted.
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totally (antonym)
bit by bit
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wholly (antonym)
bit by bit
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gradational
Of or pertaining to gradation.
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in small stages
one thing at a time
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stepwise
(Music) Moving from one tone to an adjacent one.
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little-by-little
a little bit at a time
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in stages
a little bit at a time
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piece-meal (related)
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haphazard (related)
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all (antonym)
The entire number of
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patchy
Giving the effect of patches; not consistent or uniform in quality; irregular
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fast (related)
Firm in loyalty:
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Piecemeal Sentence Examples

  • After four days' heating the provisional front wall is removed piecemeal, and the retorts, after having been heated to redness, are inserted in corresponding sets.

  • In September 1825 Ibrahim, at the order of the sultan, had joined Reshid before the town; piecemeal the outlying forts and defences now fell, until the garrison, reduced by starvation and disease, determined to hazard all on a final sortie.

  • I amused myself one winter day with sliding this piecemeal across the pond, nearly half a mile, skating behind with one end of a log fifteen feet long on my shoulder, and the other on the ice; or I tied several logs together with a birch withe, and then, with a longer birch or alder which had a hook at the end, dragged them across.

  • They were not assailed by a great religious movement, but destroyed piecemeal by the revolt of tribes and districts.

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