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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: limited, imperfect, unfinished
Antonyms: complete
- biased or prejudiced in favor of a person, group, side, etc., over another, as in a controversy:
a partial witness.
- pertaining to or affecting a part.
Antonyms: complete
- being a part; component; constituent.
- Botany. secondary or subordinate:
a partial umbel.
noun
- Bridge. part-score.
- Acoustics, Music. partial tone.
partial
/ ˈpɑːʃəl /
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
- ˈpartialness, noun
- ˈpartially, adverb
Other Words From
- par·tial·ly adverb
- par·tial·ness noun
- non·par·tial adjective
- o·ver·par·tial adjective
- o·ver·par·tial·ness 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 those judges cannot necessarily be trusted to be partial, Figluizzi said, as the federal bench is full of Trump appointees who critics have accused of showing overt ideological bias and loyalty to Trump.
Early-rising UK stargazers are in for a celestial treat later this week as a partial lunar eclipse takes place just before dawn on Friday.
The partial lunar eclipse in the UK will be visible - weather permitting - during the early hours of 14 March from 3:57 GMT before peaking at 6:19.
It can also cause temporary or partial but long-term vision loss.
America's top diplomat has said that he sees promise in Ukraine's proposal for a partial ceasefire to end the three-year war with Russia, ahead of talks in Saudi Arabia between US and Ukrainian officials.
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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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