Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In conformity with an ideal; perfectly.
- adverb In theory or imagination; theoretically.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In idea; in thought.
- According to an ideal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an ideal manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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The designer's job, ideally, is to create an experience the player will enjoy, to show them something unique and new, to help them do something unique and new.
The Authorship Conflict SVGL 2009
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Before you purchase a full size snooker table for your home, be sure you have enough space; the minimum space required ideally is 22 foot long and 16 foot wide to allow for cueing all around the table.
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Not all will be perfect but the sum of them, ideally, is enough to trip up a problem.
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Not all will be perfect but the sum of them, ideally, is enough to trip up a problem.
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Obama ideally is running on the same platform-policy wise-as Clinton, except he has a lot more integrity and his campaign is funded solely by the people.
Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate 2008
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Again ideally, all of this activity, interest, and forward momentum would crescendo in a flurry of new Manila plug-ins and Radio Tools which would attract more subscribers and projects.
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There was a point to what I was doing and I specifically italicized the word ideally for people like you who cannot handle questions or proposed discussions of this nature. by
Change Prioritized 2008
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There was a point to what I was doing and I specifically italicized the word ideally for people like you who cannot handle questions or proposed discussions of this nature. by
Change Prioritized 2008
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The most that would ever happen over WP is the same thing that happened with Abu Grahib – the blame would fall to some relatively low-ranking officer (ideally from the Reserves) who would take the fall but complain bitterly about it.
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In short, to Richard Nixon, television ideally is the mirror, mirror on the wall.
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