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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

identically en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /aɪˈdɛntɪkəli/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English identical Middle English -ly English -ly English identically From identical + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In an identical manner.
    • It was inevitable that such a system should lead to the wide use of nicknames to distinguish identically named members of a family[…] 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:
    • It was hard to tell the twins apart: they even spoke identically.
  2. In terms of an identity.
    • two expressions that are identically equal to each other

Forms

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more identically Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most identically Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

identically zero

Translations (11)

pl bliźniaczo (in an identical manner) · pl jednako (in an identical manner) · ro identic (in an identical manner) · es idénticamente (in an identical manner) · it identicamente (in an identical manner) · fr identiquement (in an identical manner) · pt identicamente (in an identical manner) · ca idènticament (in an identical manner) · gl identicamente (in an identical manner) · pl identycznie (in an identical manner) · pl jednakowo (in an identical manner)