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UK/pəˈtɪkjələli//pəˈtɪkjəli/US/pɚˈtɪkjəlɚli//pəˈtɪkjəlɚli/

adverb

Especially, extremely.

“The apéritifs were particularly stimulating.”

Very commonScrabble 19

Meanings

adverbparticularly (not comparable)

alternative obsolete perticularly

  1. focusnot comparableEspecially, extremely.

    The apéritifs were particularly stimulating.

    2 more examples

    We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.

    1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

    One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.

    2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2021, page 1
  2. not comparabledegreeTo a great extent.

    Synonyms: exceedingly

  3. not comparableSpecifically, uniquely or individually.
    2 more examples

    But as the half progressed, Liverpool's pressure and high-tempo passing game increased United's frustration and it threatened to boil over on the stroke of half-time when Van Persie, who had already been booked, was involved in angry verbal exchanges with several Liverpool players, particularly Gerrard.

    2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2020

    [Montana Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.

    2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2021
  4. not comparableIn detail; with regard to particulars.

    'That is quite right,' agreed Myra. 'We allow the milkman to come in at the front gate and go to the side door, to save him carrying his can right round the other way. No one else came; I asked Chloe particularly.'

    1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

    Synonyms: detailly

  5. datednot comparableIn a particular manner; fussily.

    He, rather too particularly perhaps, avoids public company, and is the very reverse of a bon vivant.

    1825, Oxberry's dramatic biography and histrionic anecdotes

    Synonyms: exacting, fastidiously, pedantically, pickily

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbTo a great extent.

adverbIn detail; with regard to particulars.

Similar

adverbIn a particular manner; fussily.

More synonyms by meaning

adverbto a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common

adverbspecifically or especially distinguished from others

adverbuniquely or characteristically

Similar

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Englishparticular
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishparticularly

From particular + -ly.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Ancient Greek ἰδίως
  • ἰδίως (idíōs)especially
Bulgarian особено, специално
  • особено (osobeno)especially
  • специално (specialno)especially
Chinese Mandarin 尤其
  • 尤其 (yóuqí)especially
Esperanto precipe
  • precipeespecially
Finnish erityisen
  • erityisenespecially
French particulièrement
  • particulièrementespecially
German besonders
  • besondersespecially
Icelandic sérstaklega
  • sérstaklegaespecially
Italian in particolare, estremamente
  • in particolareespecially
  • estremamenteespecially
Latin praesertim, cumprīmē
  • praesertimespecially
  • cumprīmēespecially
Māori inarā, ina koa
  • inarāespecially
  • ina koaespecially
Norwegian Bokmål i særdeleshet
  • i særdeleshetespecially
Polish szczególnie
  • szczególnieespecially
Romanian deosebit de, în special
  • deosebit deespecially
  • în specialespecially
Russian осо́бенно, в ча́стности
  • осо́бенно (osóbenno)especially
  • в ча́стности (v částnosti)especially
Spanish particularmente
  • particularmenteespecially
Ukrainian особли́во
  • особли́во (osoblývo)especially
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APA

particularly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/particularly

MLA

“particularly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/particularly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “particularly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/particularly.

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