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apart
adjective
1 apart
Remote and separate physically or socially:
— Existed over the centuries as a world apart.
— Preserved because they inhabited a place apart.
synonyms: isolated, obscure.
Roget 87:
one,
sole,
single,
solitary,
unitary;
individual,
apart,
alone;
kithless†.
unaccompanied,
unattended;
solus [Lat.],
single-handed;
singular,
odd,
unique,
unrepeated†,
azygous,
first and last;
isolated
etc.
(disjoined)
44;
insular.
monospermous†;
unific†,
uniflorous†,
unifoliate†,
unigenital†,
uniliteral†,
unijocular†,
unimodal [Math.],
unimodular†.
lone,
lonely,
lonesome;
desolate,
dreary.
insecable†,
inseverable†,
indiscerptible†;
compact,
indivisible,
atomic,
irresolvable†.
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Roget 44:
disjoined
etc.
v.;
discontinuous
etc.
70;
multipartite†,
abstract;
disjunctive;
secant;
isolated
etc.
v.;
insular,
separate,
disparate,
discrete,
apart,
asunder,
far between,
loose,
free;
unattached,
unannexed,
unassociated,
unconnected;
distinct;
adrift;
straggling;
rift,
reft†.
[capable of being cut]
scissile [Chem],
divisible,
discerptible†,
partible,
separable.
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2 apart
Having characteristics not shared by others.
adverb
1 apart
2 apart
Not taken into account or excluded from consideration:
— These problems apart, the country is doing well.
synonym: aside.
3 apart
Away from another or others.
4 apart
Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose:
— Had a feeling of being set apart.
— Quality sets it apart.
synonym: aside.
5 apart
6 apart
Into parts or pieces:
— He took his father's watch apart.
— Split apart.
synonym: asunder.
Roget 44:
separately
etc.
adj.;
one by one,
severally,
apart;
adrift,
asunder,
in twain;
in the abstract,
abstractedly.
Roget 196:
far off,
far away;
afar,
afar off;
off;
away;
a long way off,
a great way off,
a good way off;
wide away,
aloof;
wide of,
clear of;
out of the way,
out of reach;
abroad,
yonder,
farther,
further,
beyond;
outre mer [Fr.],
over the border,
far and wide,
over the hills and far away"
[Gay];
from pole to pole
etc.
(over great space)
180;
to the uttermost parts,
to the ends of the earth;
out of hearing,
nobody knows where,
a perte de vue [Fr.],
out of the sphere of,
wide of the mark;
a far cry to.
apart,
asunder;
wide apart,
wide asunder;
longo intervallo [It];
at arm's length.
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Moby thesaurus: a huis clos, adrift, alien, alienated, all to pieces, alone, aloof, apart from, aside, aside from, asunder, at a distance, away, away from, behind closed doors, besides, bipartite, by itself, by two, companionless, detached, dichotomous, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distal, distant, distinct, distinctly, divergent, except for, excepting, excluding, exotic, extraneous, far, far off, faraway, fifty-fifty, foreign, friendless, half-and-half, homeless, in a backwater, in camera, in chambers, in executive session, in half, in halves, in privacy, in private, in private conference, in privy, in the abstract, in the singular, in twain, in two, incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, independently, individually, insular, irrelative, isolate, isolated, januis clausis, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, long-distance, long-range, noncohesive, not counting, once, one by one, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, particularly, partitioned, per se, piecemeal, privately, privily, quarantined, remote, removed, retired, rootless, secluded, segregate, segregated, separate, separated, separately, severally, shut off, single-handed, single-handedly, singly, singularly, sky-high, solitary, solo, strange, to one side, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unaided, unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattached, unattended, unconnected, unescorted, unfrequented, unjoined, unrelatable, unrelated, unseconded, unsupported, unvisited, wide apart, wide away, withdrawn ... show more.
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