Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb For a moment or an instant.
- adverb Usage Problem In a moment; very soon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- So as to be momentary; for a moment.
- From moment to moment: as, he is momentarily expected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Every moment; from moment to moment.
- adverb In a moment; in the immediate future.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
momentary manner; for amoment orinstant . - adverb US In a moment or very
soon ; at any moment. - adverb
Progressively ; moment-by-moment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb for an instant or moment
- adverb at any moment
Etymologies
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Examples
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His expression momentarily froze, so she breezed past the moment by asking, “You must remember a lot about the missions of these ships.”
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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His expression momentarily froze, so she breezed past the moment by asking, “You must remember a lot about the missions of these ships.”
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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The name momentarily stuck in her throat as Luz attempted to be more magnanimous.
The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985
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The name momentarily stuck in her throat as Luz attempted to be more magnanimous.
The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985
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The name momentarily stuck in her throat as Luz attempted to be more magnanimous.
The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985
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She had forgotten his name momentarily, too, and the priest had to repeat it for her.
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She had forgotten his name momentarily, too, and the priest had to repeat it for her.
Shuffling Deck Chairs on the Titanic Sharon Hunt 2009
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Logs in momentarily, but them jumps back to the login screen
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - ExtraLife FINALLY has a chat board 2006
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That being said, if bias can be divorced momentarily from the partisanship engineered by K Street: what do you think on the fact that for the first time in history the House leadership is coming from a city on the Pacific?
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About there or a little north all the channels started coming back in strong but would disappear momentarily is I went under an underpass.
seanahan commented on the word momentarily
There is a whole bit on Sports Night about this word.
June 30, 2007
vsrixyz commented on the word momentarily
Constantly misused.
November 11, 2008