adverb
- In a special manner.
- usage: "a specially arranged dinner"
- synonyms: especially
- To a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common.
- usage: "he was particularly fussy about spelling"; "a particularly gruesome attack"; "under peculiarly tragic circumstances"; "an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger"
- synonyms: particularly, peculiarly, especially
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