apart

adverb more apart · further apart · farther apart · most apart · furthest apart · farthest apart

1. Placed separately (in regard to space or time). We had a large bus and I had two of them at the front and two at the back, and I had to sit in the middle and keep them apart.
2. Separately, exclusively, not together. Consider the two propositions apart.

   Similar: independently, separately, absolutely, abstractedly, abstractly, apart, discretely, individually, properly, serely, severally, singly

3. In or into two or more parts. We took the computer apart and put it back together.

   Similar: asunder, in twain, apart, half and half, in sunder, piecemeal

4. To the side; aside. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

postp

1. Excluded from consideration. Joking apart, what do you think?

   Similar: aside

Opposite: together

adjective

1. not comparable, after a noun or in the predicate Exceptional, distinct. In aristocracies, servants are a class apart.
2. not comparable Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.
3. not comparable Separate, on the side. The young lover was in waiting, to hand them out of the large substantial carriage, and the first quiet moment that he could find for an apart whisper, said, "What can be the reason that your mother has never taken the slightest notice of my letter?"