fragments
Pieces of something
Fragments are pieces broken off from something larger.
A fragment of glass, a fragment of bone, a fragment of a conversation overheard.
The word suggests incompleteness—you have part but not the whole: Only fragments of the ancient text survive.
To fragment is to break apart: The empire fragmented into warring states.
Fragmented information or memories come in disconnected pieces, lacking coherent structure.
Broken into fragments
- shardsBroken fragments of brittle material
- splintersThin sharp broken fragments
- piecesParts of something divided
- brokenDamaged beyond function
chips · slivers · debris · rubble · smithereens · shrapnel · remnants · bits
Remaining traces of something
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
- tracesSlight remaining amounts
- remainsContinues in place
- leftoversUneaten food kept afterward
residue · survivors · echoes · ruins · aftermath · legacy · husks · skeletons
Favoring one side
- unfinishedNot yet complete
- incompleteLacking necessary parts
- sketchyIncomplete or suspicious
- roughUneven in surface
piecemeal · disjointed · scattered · patchy · sporadic · fractional · segmented · disconnected
shattered
Broken into fragments
- shardsBroken fragments of brittle material
- splintersThin sharp broken fragments
- piecesParts of something divided
broken · chips · slivers · debris · rubble · smithereens · shrapnel · remnants · bits · crumbs
vestiges
Remaining traces of something
leftovers · residue · survivors · echoes · ruins · aftermath · legacy · husks · skeletons · stumps
partial
Favoring one side
- unfinishedNot yet complete
- incompleteLacking necessary parts
- sketchyIncomplete or suspicious
rough · piecemeal · disjointed · scattered · patchy · sporadic · fractional · segmented · disconnected · incoherent
recollections
Retrieved past experiences
- flashbacksInvoluntary vivid memory episodes
- glimpsesBrief, incomplete views
- snatchesSeizes quickly or fragments
flashes · impressions · wisps · echoes · hazy · fleeting · fading · vivid · traumatic · recovered
excerpts
Selected passages from texts
sections · verses · lines · phrases · sentences · clippings · citations · chapters · stanzas · paragraphs
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- vestigestraces, remnants, relics, ruins, fossils
- writing flawstypos, spelling errors, plot hole, plot holes, cliche
- remnants of the pastrelics, ruins, fossils, vestiges, artifacts
- drug discoverycompounds, SAR, scaffolds, inhibitors, agonists
- debitageflakes, cores, shatter, blades, microblades
fragmentswhole
Full and undivided
wholes · entirety · totality · entireties · sum total
fragmentsunshattered
Not broken into pieces
monolith · monoliths · block · slab · unfractured
fragmentssynthesis
Combining parts into whole
unity · consolidation · assemblage · composite · ensemble
- sentence fragmentGrammatically incomplete unit
- bone fragmentBroken piece of skeleton
- fragmentation grenadeExplosive that scatters shrapnel
- glass fragmentsBroken transparent material pieces
- soul fragmentsScattered pieces of essence
- Okazaki fragmentsShort DNA replication pieces
fragment, fragmented, fragmentary, fragmentation, fragmenting, fragmentations, defragment, defragmentation, unfragmented