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# fragmentary

adjective (more fragmentary, most fragmentary)

«fragmentary» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Fragmentary means broken into small pieces, or only partly known, not whole. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fragmentary/#m1)

### In the lessons

a story or picture that survives only in pieces, so the reader must fill the gaps

### Examples

- The old map was fragmentary, with pieces missing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fragmentary/#x1)
- We had only fragmentary news of the battle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fragmentary/#x2)
- The fragmentary pictures showed a kingdom under the earth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fragmentary/#x3)

### Note

a fragmentary list has parts missing, so a total taken from it may be too small

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fragmentary» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fragmentary/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fragmentary» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fragmentary.html) on Mova free.