apart
Adjective Satellite
- remote and separate physically or socially; ; - W.H.Hudson
- "existed over the centuries as a world apart"
- "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"
- having characteristics not shared by others; - Vannever Bush
- "scientists felt they were a group apart"
Adverb
- Separately; into pieces or parts.
- separated or at a distance in place or position or time
- "These towns are many miles apart"
- "stood with his legs apart"
- "born two years apart"
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- "these problems apart, the country is doing well"
- away from another or others
- "they grew apart over the years"
- "kept apart from the group out of shyness"
- "decided to live apart"
- placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
- "had a feeling of being set apart"
- "quality sets it apart"
- one from the other
- "people can't tell the twins apart"
- into parts or pieces
- "he took his father's watch apart"
- "split apart"
Adv
- Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- Separately, exclusively, not together.
- In or into two or more parts.
- To the side; aside.
Postp
- Excluded from consideration.
Adj
- Exceptional, distinct.
- Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.
- Separate, on the side.
Noun
- Misspelling of a part.
Examples
- Consider the two propositions apart.
- in a class apart
- Joking apart, what do you think?
- She took his entire strategy apart with one brilliant move.
- We took the computer apart and put it back together.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).
Synonyms
aside, asunder, isolated, obscure, absolutely, abstractedly, abstractly, apart, discretely, half and half, in sunder, in twain, independently, individually, piecemeal, separately, serely, severally, singly, sunderling, sunderly, together, uniquely
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 7
apart: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordapart: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
apart: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary