particularlyadverb
uk/pəˈtɪk.jə.lə.li/us/pɚˈtɪk.jə.lɚ.li/B1 especially, or more than usual:
We're particularly interested to hear from people who speak two or more European languages.
I didn't particularly want to go, but I had to.
More examples
- I was never a particularly academic child.
- Neither one of us is particularly interested in gardening.
- They don't seem particularly worried about the situation.
- His books aren't particularly well-written, but they're always entertaining.
- This was a particularly brutal and cowardly attack.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- badly
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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