particularly — English Dictionary

Adverb

1. Especially, extremely.

   Usage

   • focus
   • not-comparable

   Examples

   The apéritifs were particularly stimulating.

   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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   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.

2. To a great extent.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

3. Specifically, uniquely or individually.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

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   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.

   [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.

4. In detail; with regard to particulars.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

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   '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.'

5. In a particular manner; fussily.

   Usage

   • Dated
   • not-comparable

   Examples

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

Adverb

1. to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common

   Synonyms

   peculiarlyespeciallyspecially

   Examples

   he was particularly fussy about spelling

   a particularly gruesome attack

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   under peculiarly tragic circumstances

   an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger

2. specifically or especially distinguished from others

   Synonyms

   in particular

   Examples

   loves Bach, particularly his partitas

   recommended one book in particular

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   trace major population movements for the Pueblo groups in particular

3. uniquely or characteristically

   Synonyms

   peculiarly

   Examples

   these peculiarly cinematic elements

   a peculiarly French phenomenon