nominally

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14
Words With Friends
18
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈnɒmɪnəli/
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/ˈnɒmɪnəli/ · /ˈnɑmɪnəli/

Definition of nominally

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (not-comparable)In a nominal manner; in name only.
    “Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).”
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adv

  1. (not-comparable)In a nominal manner; in name only.
    “Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).”
  2. (not-comparable)Slightly.
  3. (not-comparable)As a noun.
    “In Mauritanian Hassaniya, forms like lil-i can function nominally ('mine'), and accordingly have FeSg and Pl variants (lil-t-i, lwaayl-i), see DHF l.lxxv.”
    “In the first phase, the grasp of an abstraction, the concept 'size' does not function nominally, rather it provides a way of thinking the quality of something.”

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Etymology

From nominal + -ly.

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