partly

English

Etymology

From part +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹtli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːtli/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tli

Adverb

partly (not comparable)

1. In part, or to some degree, but not completely.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:partially

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:completely

   they partly finished the house so they could move in before winter;  the car was partly visible in the garage

   • 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2-2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:

     Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.

   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:

     Clara's cultural cache soon gave way to Betty Boop, the iconic cartoon flapper created partly in her image by animator Grim Natwick.

   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

Related terms

• partially

Collocations

Collocations

• partly responsible
• partly true
• partly right
• partly open
• partly attributable
• partly dependent
• partly successful
• partly correct
• partly free
• partly based
• partly explained
• partly covered
• partly determined
• partly supported
• partly inspired
• partly hidden
• partly concealed
• partly obscured
• partly filled
• partly dressed

Translations

in part

• Armenian: մասամբ (hy) (masamb)
• Belarusian: частко́ва (častkóva)
• Bulgarian: частично (bg) (častično), отчасти (bg) (otčasti)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 部分地 (bùfèn de)

• Czech: částečně (cs)
• Danish: delvis (da)
• Dutch: deels (nl), gedeeltelijk (nl)
• Finnish: osittain (fi)
• French: en partie (fr)
• German: teilweise (de), zum Teil
• Hebrew: חלקי (chelki)
• Hungarian: részben (hu)
• Japanese: 部分的に (ぶぶんてきに, bubunteki ni), 一部 (ja) (いちぶ, ichibu)
• Latin: partim
• Macedonian: делумно (delumno)
• Plautdietsch: deelwiess
• Polish: częściowo (pl), po części (pl)
• Portuguese: em parte
• Russian: части́чно (ru) (častíčno), отча́сти (ru) (otčásti)
• Spanish: en parte, en cierto modo
• Swedish: dels (sv)
• Ukrainian: частко́во (častkóvo), поча́сти (počásty)

Further reading

• “partly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “partly”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “partly”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• paltry, raptly