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English
Etymology
From nominal + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
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, 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.
References
- “nominally”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “nominally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.