transitorily
transitorily adverb: in a transitory way.
Adverb
transitorily
- In a transitory way.
- With regard to similes of this kind, it will readily occur to the reader that when a resembling subject is once properly introduced in a simile, the mind is transitorily amused with the new object, and is not dissatisfied with the slight interruption.1762, Henry Home Kames, Elements of Criticism, published 1819, page 147
- All parts of the experienced world are experienced transitorily. They appear and disappear.1960, William Leonard Hoerber, A Scientific Foundation of Philosophy, page 76
- Synonyms:
- fleetingly, temporarily, transiently
Examples of transitorily in a sentence
- Most transitorily poor households are substantially better off than chronically poor households.2001, Neil McCulloch, L[eonard] Alan Winters, Xavier Cirera, Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook, page 149:
- It is not a permanent space: it transitorily colonizes public urban space, overlapping and somehow replacing it.2008, Frank Eckardt, Media and urban space: understanding, investigating and approaching mediacity, page 17:
Synonyms of transitorily
Origin of transitorily
From transitory + -ly.
Questions about transitorily
- What does transitorily mean?
- Transitorily means in a transitory way.
- How do you use transitorily in a sentence?
- Most transitorily poor households are substantially better off than chronically poor households.
- What part of speech is transitorily?
- Transitorily is an adverb.
Words near transitorily in the dictionary
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