apart
UK /əˈpɑːt/ · US /əˈpɑɹt/ adverb, postp, adjective
Forms further apart farther apart furthest apart farthest apart
- adverb Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- adverb Separately, exclusively, not together. “Consider the two propositions apart.”
- adverb In or into two or more parts. “We took the computer apart and put it back together.”
- adverb To the side; aside.
- postp Excluded from consideration. “Joking apart, what do you think?”
- adjective (after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct. “In aristocracies, servants are a class apart.”
- adjective Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.
- adjective Separate, on the side.
Synonyms
independently separately absolutely abstractedly abstractly discretely individually properly serely severally singly sunderling sunderly together uniquely asunder in twain half and half in sunder piecemeal isolated obscure aside
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).
Webster’s 1913
- adverb Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.
- adverb In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.
Etymology [F. à part; (L. ad) + part part. See Part.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “apart”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details