Alternative forms

• perticularly (obsolete)

Etymology

From particular +‎ -lyCategory:English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)#PARTICULARLY.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈtɪkjələli/Category:English 5-syllable words#PARTICULARLYCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PARTICULARLY
  • (haplology) IPA^(key): /pəˈtɪkjəli/Category:English 4-syllable words#PARTICULARLYCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PARTICULARLY
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈtɪkjəlɚli/Category:English 5-syllable words#PARTICULARLYCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PARTICULARLY

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  • (US, r-dissimilation) IPA^(key): /pəˈtɪkjəlɚli/Category:English 5-syllable words#PARTICULARLYCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PARTICULARLY

Adverb

particularly (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#PARTICULARLYCategory:English adverbs#PARTICULARLYCategory:English uncomparable adverbs#PARTICULARLYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PARTICULARLYCategory:Pages with entries#PARTICULARLYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PARTICULARLY

1. (focusCategory:English focus adverbs#PARTICULARLY) Especially, extremely.

   The apéritifs were particularly stimulating.Category:English terms with usage examples#PARTICULARLY

   • 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:

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

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   • 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:

     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.

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2. (degree) To a great extent.
3. Specifically, uniquely or individually.
   • 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:

     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.

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   • 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ‎:

     [Minnesota 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.

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4. In detail; with regard to particulars.
   • 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:

     '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.'

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5. (datedCategory:English dated terms#PARTICULARLY) In a particular manner; fussily.
   • 1825, Oxberry's dramatic biography and histrionic anecdotes:

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

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Adverb

particularlyCategory:Scots lemmas#PARTICULARLYCategory:Scots adverbs#PARTICULARLYCategory:Scots entries with incorrect language header#PARTICULARLYCategory:Pages with entries#PARTICULARLYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PARTICULARLY

1. Particularly.