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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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