in particular

Idioms and Phrases

Especially; also, separately, individually, in detail. For example, The chancellor talked about the curriculum, the core courses in particular , or The orchestra was outstanding, the strings in particular . [c. 1500]

Example Sentences

It has been reserved for our own day to evolve the comedy of nothing-in-particular.

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Allan Dorris, if you are from Nowhere-in-Particular, you are at home again.

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"Allan Dorris, from Nowhere-in-Particular," he mutters after he is seated, and while watching his steaming garments.

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But at worst there are always birthdays or, for nursery gifts, those even more apt occasions known as Nothing-in-particular Days.

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Poor Janet, utterly ignorant of the cause, and knowing not whither she was bound, rode a mad ride to nowhere-in-particular.

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Related Words

• especially
• exceptionally
• notably
• principally
• specially
• surprisingly
• unusually