in particular

English

Etymology

Related to French en particulier. Compare Spanish en particular and Italian in particolare.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Prepositional phrase

in particular

1. (focus) Especially, individually or specifically.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

   • 1960 February, H. C. P. Smail, “New Portrait of George Stephenson”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:

     Comparing the present picture carefully with other known portraits of George Stephenson, and in particular with a portrait belonging to Mrs. Connie Wilson, of Stargate, Ryton-on-Tyne, a close resemblance can be detected in the general contours of the face, the shape of the nose, the lines and shadows around the mouth and chin, and the eyebrows and bone structure above the eyes.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:specifically

Antonyms

• in general; see also Thesaurus:generally

Translations

especially, individually or specifically

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: մասնավորապես (hy) (masnavorapes)
• Belarusian: у прыва́тнасці (u pryvátnasci)
• Betawi: wabilkusus
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尤其 (zh) (yóuqí), 特別 / 特别 (zh) (tèbié)

• Czech: zejména (cs)
• Dutch: in het bijzonder
• Esperanto: aparte
• Finnish: erityisesti (fi)
• French: en particulier (fr)
• German: insbesondere (de), besonders (de), vor allem (de)
• Hebrew: בפרט (bifrát)
• Hungarian: különösen (hu), elsősorban (hu), elsődlegesen, leginkább (hu)
• Icelandic: sér í lagi
• Irish: go háirithe
• Japanese: 特に (ja) (とくに, toku ni)
• Korean: 특히 (ko) (teukhi)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەتایبەتی (betaybetî)

• Māori: ina koa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: i særdeleshet

• Polish: szczególnie (pl), w szczególności (pl)
• Russian: в осо́бенности (v osóbennosti), в ча́стности (ru) (v částnosti), осо́бенно (ru) (osóbenno)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по́себице̄

  Latin: pósebicē (sh)

• Spanish: en particular (es), sobre todo, en concreto
• Swedish: i synnerhet (sv), särskilt (sv), enkannerligen (sv)
• Ukrainian: зокре́ма́ (uk) (zokrémá)
• Vietnamese: nói riêng (vi)
• Welsh: yn arbennig
• Yiddish: בפֿרט (befrat)