eminently
English
WOTD – 12 May 2006
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛmɪnəntli/
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Adverb
eminently (comparative more eminently, superlative most eminently)
- In an eminent or prominent manner.
- To a great degree; notably; highly.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 128:
- [A]nd what was worse a more eminently inquisitorial eye lurked in the Piper fowlyard.
- 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
- Everyone supported the nominee because she was eminently qualified.
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Related terms
Translations
in an eminent manner
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to a great degree
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