Synonyms:
partial
Meaning: being or affecting only a part; not total; "a partial description of the suspect"; "partial collapse"; "a partial eclipse"; "a partial monopoly"; "partial immunity"
Synonyms:
partial
Meaning: showing favoritism
Usage examples
But I am a partial old friend."
This account of her partial ignorance is confirmed by her other school- fellows.
The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new.
He said, "I have heard that superior men show no partiality; are they, too, then, partial?
Yes, he recognised them in their partial revelation, though he never saw the monstrous host complete.
But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view everything with the jaundiced eye of melancholy--for I am sad--and have cause.
Partial and conditional salvation is in fact a most familiar notion when taken in the abstract, the only difficulty being to determine the details.
"Partial relatives have almost persuaded me that I am not entirely worthless in a duet myself; and we may enliven our wayfaring by indulging in our favorite pursuit.
This indeed gave him one of those partial recoveries of equanimity that were agreeable to him--it showed him that what was still first in his mind was the loss she herself might suffer.
The Absolute Idea, therefore, is adequate to describe Absolute Reality; but all lower ideas only describe reality as it appears to a partial view, not as it is to one who simultaneously surveys the Whole.