in bits and pieces

ADVERB

partly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

at least partially slightly somewhat

WEAK

at best at most at worst bit by bit by degrees carelessly halfway in a general way in part in some measure in some ways inadequately incompletely insufficiently little by little measurably not entirely not fully not strictly speaking not wholly notably noticeably piece by piece piecemeal relatively so far as possible to a certain degree to a certain extent up to a certain point within limits

Antonyms

WEAK

completely totally wholly

Example Sentences

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Though they made their split official in 1970 after coming apart in bits and pieces, they have never gone away.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025

“I love it. I’m just learning so much from them just watching how they work and how they recover. I’m taking in bits and pieces of information on everything.”

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2024

"Fight like we did, don't give in and fight consistently... not in bits and pieces," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2024

That was more or less the official prehistory of my childhood, although I learned it only in bits and pieces over the years.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2023

For if this child had been his instead of Nicolas’s, it would have been born healthy and intact, instead of exiting in bits and pieces in this sewer of a clinic.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

in bits and pieces

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