finally

Adverb

finally (not comparable)

1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately.
   • The contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.

   Synonyms:

   eventually, in the end

   Antonyms:

   initially

2. At bottom; ultimately; when all is considered.
   • In a world in which "like singing,/ the next day's shriek for ease rises," in a world whose "survivors" are "capable of any cry, never done/ clasping in the city's shaken places," it is perhaps not surprising to find a dehumanizing but finally protective system of alienation imposing itself.1975 December 20, Rudy Kikel, “The Closed Closet Policy and the Poetry of Paul Monette”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 9
   • Cyberneticism is, finally, a refined form of scientism, and therefore it is also more dangerous. This form of scientism is not based on linear causality, as mechanistic thought is; rather, it is based on circular causality.2024, Egbert Schuurman, Ruben Alvarado, Technology and Christianity: Essays on the Interface, page 113
3. (sequence) To finish (with); lastly (in the present).
   • Finally, I washed my dog.
   • Finally, I'd like to thanks all the people who helped to make it this far.

   Synonyms:

   at last, at length, endly, last, lastly, ultimately

4. Definitively, comprehensively.
   • The question of his long-term success has now been finally settled.

   Synonyms:

   completely, thoroughly, totally, absolutely, all-out, tout à fait, all the way, stone-cold, blind, altogether