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CONDITIONALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does conditionally mean?
• CONDITIONALLY (adverb)
The adverb CONDITIONALLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: CONDITIONALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to a condition
Context example:
he accepted the offer conditionally
Antonym:
unconditionally (not subject to a condition)
Context examples
I have heard from authority, which I thought as good, that it was left you conditionally only, and at the will of the present patron.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Glutamine may become a conditionally essential amino acid during certain catabolic states.
(Glutamine, NCI Thesaurus)
If he were, every thing else must give way; but otherwise his friend Cole had been saying so much about his dining with him—had made such a point of it, that he had promised him conditionally to come.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Conditionally.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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