nominally en · ADV
Pronunciation
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- /ˈnɑmɪnəli/ (General-American)
- /ˈnɒmɪnəli/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin nōminālisder. Middle English nominalle English nominal Middle English -ly English -ly English nominally From nominal + -ly.
Meanings
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(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).
2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
- (not-comparable) Slightly.
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(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.
2013, Jeffrey Heath, Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic: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.
2013, Peter de Bola, The Architecture of Concepts: