HOW TO PRONOUNCE
particularly
/ˌpɑɹˈtɪkjəlɚli/
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Stress “tic” and keep the ending light.
Use five syllables and a y sound after k. Put the main beat on the second syllable, then keep the r-colored vowel and final lee less prominent.
5 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The final chapter was particularly useful.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does particularly mean?
adverb
- Especially, extremely.
- To a great extent.
- Specifically, uniquely or individually.
More meanings (2)
adverb
- In detail; with regard to particulars.
- (dated) In a particular manner; fussily.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌpɑɹˈtɪkjəlɚli/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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However, tens of millions of villagers, particularly in the south, have not benefited from the green revolution and live in abject poverty.
“Not up,” I replied, “for I noticed particularly that while the building is roofless it is covered with a strong metal grating.”
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His nose was firmly shaped, his mouth particularly sweet in expression, high forehead, intelligent and furrowed with wrinkles like a newly-plowed field.
And all this by such a man as General Tilney, so polite, so well bred, and heretofore so particularly fond of her!
Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer itself.