meaningfully
meaningfully adverb: in a meaningful or significant manner.
Adverb
meaningfully (comparative more meaningfully, superlative most meaningfully)
- In a meaningful or significant manner.
- Because of this, SSDs are one of the first technologies to meaningfully demonstrate just what synesthesia – or at least one kind of it – might feel like to those who have never had it.2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN
Examples of meaningfully in a sentence
- A cosmopolitan individual engages meaningfully with different cultures and feels at home in the world.
- "Accurate" isn't a word you can meaningfully apply to quotations from magical Jesi in peoples' heads.
- This theological interpretation is meaningfully illustrated with a miraculum, which according to Ebo (III, 1) happened in Güzkow.
Forms of meaningfully
| comparative | more meaningfully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most meaningfully |
Origin of meaningfully
From meaningful + -ly.
Questions about meaningfully
- What does meaningfully mean?
- Meaningfully means in a meaningful or significant manner.
- What part of speech is meaningfully?
- Meaningfully is an adverb.
Words near meaningfully in the dictionary
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