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nominally

Syllables: nom·i·nal·lyUK/ˈnɒmɪnəli//ˈnɑmɪnəli/

nominally adverb: in a nominal manner; in name only.

Adverb

nominally (not comparable)

  1. In a nominal manner; in name only.
    • 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).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 04 Mar 2021
  2. Slightly.
  3. As a noun.
    • 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, Jeffrey Heath, Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic
    • 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, Peter de Bola, The Architecture of Concepts

nominally meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

nominally in Hindi

नाममात्र से

nominally in Tamil

பெயரளவில், பெயர்க்கு

nominally in Marathi

नामार्थिकरित्या, नाममात्रपणे

nominally in Urdu

برائے نام, محض نام کے لئے
More languagesFewer languages
nominally in Bengali
নামমাত্রভাবে
nominally in Malayalam
പേരുകൊണ്ട്, പേരിനുമാത്രമായി
nominally in Kannada
ನಾಮಮಾತ್ರವಾಗಿ
nominally in Punjabi
ਨਾਮਾਤਰ ਤੌਰ ਉੱਤੇ, ਨਾਮਾਤਰ ਤੌਰ'ਤੇ

Origin of nominally

From nominal + -ly.

Questions about nominally

What does nominally mean?
Nominally means in a nominal manner; in name only.
What is nominally in Hindi?
Nominally in Hindi is नाममात्र से. See Nominally meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nominally?
Nominally is an adverb.
How do you pronounce nominally?
Nominally is pronounced /ˈnɒmɪnəli/ (UK).

Words near nominally in the dictionary

  1. nominalized adjectives
  2. nominalizer
  3. nominalizers
  4. nominalizes
  5. nominalizing
  6. nominally
  7. nominalness
  8. nominals
  9. nominant
  10. nominants
  11. nominata

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nominally (page history and authors); nominally (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nominally (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nominally (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nominally (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nominally (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nominally (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nominally (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nominally (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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