partially

[pahr-shuh-lee]

adverb

1. to some degree or in some way or aspect, but not fully or totally; incompletely.

   Season three of the sci-fi series would have taken place either partially or completely on Mars.

2. in a way that is biased or prejudiced in favor of one group, side, person, etc., over another.

   He did not judge partially, he said, but claimed to mete out justice equally to rich and poor alike.

Other Word Forms

• nonpartially adverb
• overpartially adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of partially¹

partial ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

The Fed is expected to cut rates twice more this year, but those reductions might already be at least partially priced into today’s mortgages, said Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union.

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As part of that process, he suggested Grok was consuming Wikipedia pages, along with other sources, with an eye toward what was “true, partially true or false or missing,” then rewriting to add missing context.

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“Berkshire will never prefer ownership of cash-equivalent assets over the ownership of good businesses, whether controlled or only partially owned,” Buffett wrote earlier this year.

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“The Treasury secretary would need to find the proposed change in Fed holdings acceptable, given that it is partially fiscal policy in disguise,” Warsh says.

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The charity says more than two million people are living with sight loss in the UK and half of them are blind and partially sighted and live with a long-term irreversible eye health condition.

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Related Words

• moderately 
• partly 
• somewhat