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CONDITIONALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conditionally mean? 

CONDITIONALLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONDITIONALLY has 1 sense:

1. subject to a conditionplay

  Familiarity information: CONDITIONALLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CONDITIONALLY (adverb)


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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