apart
(adjective, adverb, preposition)
adjective
1. remote and separate physically or socially
- existed over the centuries as a world apart
- preserved because they inhabited a place apart
Similar word(s): unconnected, isolated, obscure
2. having characteristics not shared by others
- scientists felt they were a group apart
Similar word(s): separate
adverb
1. 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
2. not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- these problems apart, the country is doing well
Similar word(s): aside
3. away from another or others
- they grew apart over the years
- kept apart from the group out of shyness
- decided to live apart
4. placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
- had a feeling of being set apart
- quality sets it apart
Similar word(s): aside
5. one from the other
- people can't tell the twins apart
6. into parts or pieces
- he took his father's watch apart
- split apart
Similar word(s): asunder
Sentences with apart as an adverb:
- Consider the two propositions apart.
- to take a piece of machinery apart.
preposition
1. (following its objective complement) apart from.
- A handful of examples apart, an English preposition precedes its complement.