nominally
Syllables: nom·i·nal·lyUK/ˈnɒmɪnəli//ˈnɑmɪnəli/
nominally adverb: in a nominal manner; in name only.
Adverb
nominally (not comparable)
- 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
- Slightly.
- 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
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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