'apart' definitions:
Definition of 'apart'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Separated or at a distance in place or position or time; "These towns are many miles apart"; "stood with his legs apart"; "born two years apart"
adverb
Not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy" [syn: apart, aside]
adverb
Away from another or others; "they grew apart over the years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided to live apart"
adverb
Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing" [syn: aside, apart]
adverb
One from the other; "people can't tell the twins apart"
adverb
Into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart"; "split apart"; "torn asunder" [syn: apart, asunder]
adjective
Remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village" [syn: apart(p), isolated, obscure]
adjective
Having characteristics not shared by others; "scientists felt they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush
Synonyms of 'apart'
From: 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
Words containing 'apart'
- apartment,
- To pull apart,
- To set apart,
- apartment building,
- apartment house,
- break apart,
- come apart,
- drift apart,
- duplex apartment,
- efficiency apartment,
- fall apart,
- in the adjacent apartment,
- keep apart,
- know apart,
- pick apart,
- poles apart,
- set apart,
- stand apart,
- studio apartment,
- take apart,
- taking apart,
- tear apart,
- tease apart,
- tell apart,
- worlds apart,
- set-apart,
- walk-up apartment