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# fragmentary

«fragmentary» in Mova's school dictionary: **broken into small pieces, or only partly known, not whole** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more fragmentary, most fragmentary)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fragmentary/#x1)
- We had only fragmentary news of the battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fragmentary/#x2)
- The fragmentary pictures showed a kingdom under the earth. [tree →](https://md.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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fragmentary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fragmentary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.