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Partly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

ad. In part or in some degree; not completely.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

ad. in part, or to some degree, but not completely

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

ad. In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In part; in some part, measure, or degree; not wholly: very often repeated in stating particulars that make up a whole.

An obsolete form of pertly.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

ad. in part; in some degree; not wholly

Word Usage

"My Eyes have been leaving me in the lurch again: partly perhaps from taxing them with a little more Reading: partly from going on the Water, and straining after our River Beacons, in hot Sun and East Wind; partly also, and _main partly_ I doubt, from growing so much older and the worse for wear."

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

partially

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Hartley smartly tartly