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[ adverb ] to a great extent or degree

Synonyms

considerably well

Examples

"I'm afraid the film was well over budget" "painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger" "the house has fallen considerably in value" "the price went up substantially"

Used in print

(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)

Many such loans have been made to establish small concerns or to aid in their growth , thereby contributing substantially to community development programs .

(Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)

Willow_Run , General_Electric 's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse , the Pentagon , Boeing in Seattle , Douglas and Lockheed in Los_Angeles , the new automobile assembly plants everywhere - none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass_rapid_transit .

In most discussions of this phenomenon , the figures are substantially inflated .

Related terms

considerable significant considerable significant

2
[ adverb ] in a strong substantial way

Examples

"the house was substantially built"

Used in print

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

The first substantially complete stereo Giselle ( and the only one of its scope since Feyer 's four-sided LP edition of 1958 for Angel ) , this set is , I'm afraid , likely to provide more horrid fascination than enjoyment .

Related terms

solid solid

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Rhymes with

circumstantially financially circumstantially potentially financially actually confidentially sequentially tangentially exponentially eventually essentially preferentially scantily semiannually manfully handily provincially unintentionally uncannily initially potentially unnaturally internationally rationally clumsily nationally irrationally naturally impartially partially actually internationally commercially irrationally socially specially nationally especially racially rationally unilaterally lazily family officially artificially beneficially judicially crucially unofficially frantically forcefully eventually preferentially tangentially sequentially exponentially confidentially essentially irrationally nationally internationally casually clumsily unnaturally gradually rationally naturally superficially tactfully unconstitutionally gravitationally institutionally satisfactorily nattily napoli diastole happily testily dorsally operationally eventually unintentionally professionally intentionally conventionally educationally chronically electronically sardonically thoughtfully annually proportionally manually horizontally proportionally additionally exceptionally conditionally institutionally unconstitutionally constitutionally functionally spiritually unconditionally actually traditionally nutritionally purposefully diastole gravelly diagonally functionally subfamily initially galilee unhappily environmentally accidentally incidentally provincially temperamentally coincidentally experimentally developmentally fundamentally architecturally professionally technically wrongfully angrily thankfully abnormally territorially forcefully jauntily editorially involuntarily frightfully delightfully informally impartially geographically partially cordially nasally noisily bilaterally centrally unilaterally successfully unsuccessfully rationally internationally governmentally technologically irrationally casually comically nationally mentally magically additionally conditionally operationally exceptionally unconditionally educationally emotionally wishfully traditionally nutritionally unintentionally generally fiscally especially commercially specially tivoli rightfully artfully formally dorsally gracefully blissfully normally mortally sicily totally generally racially usually clinically uneasily perennially socially cynically heartily testily proportionally

Phonetic and Homophones

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Similar Spelling

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