eventually
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English
Etymology
From eventual + -ly. The third sense is influenced by any of several European languages, including Czech eventuálně, Swedish eventuellt.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃuː.ə.li/, /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃʊ.li/, /ɪˈvɛn.tjʊ.li/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.ə.li/, /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.li/, /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃə.li/
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Adverb
eventually (not comparable)
- In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.
- Everyone's true colors will be revealed eventually.
- She didn't arrive. Eventually, we started without her.
- He hopes eventually to attend nursing school.
- 1955 January, Charles E. Lee, “The Glasgow Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 24:
- Eventually, the railway opened on Monday, December 14, 1896, with a universal fare of 1d. collected at the turnstiles, and conditions were immediately chaotic, as many passengers travelled round and round, and refused to leave the cars.
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
- 2024 November 9, Nick Paton Walsh, “Trump’s second term could bring chaos around the world. Will it work?”, in CNN:
- President Volodymyr Zelensky has known the day would come when the idea of another “forever war” became unappealing to NATO, and the world’s largest military alliance eventually sought to wind down its involvement.
- (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions.
- Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.
- (proscribed, non-native speakers' English) Possibly, potentially, perhaps.
- I will come eventually, but haven't decided yet.
Synonyms
- (sense, in the end) at last, finally, yet, ultimately, in the end
Translations
in the end