nominally
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnɒmɪnəli/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɑmɪnəli/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: nom‧i‧nal‧ly
AdverbEdit
nominally (not comparable)
- In a nominal manner; in name only.
- 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[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2021:
- 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).
- slightly
- As a noun.
- 2013, Jeffrey Heath, Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic
- 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, Peter de Bola, The Architecture of Concepts
- 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, Jeffrey Heath, Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic
ReferencesEdit
- nominally in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- nominally in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913