MUTUALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mutually mean? 

• MUTUALLY (adverb)
  The adverb MUTUALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a mutual or shared manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUTUALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a mutual or shared manner

Synonyms:

mutually; reciprocally

Context example:

the goals of the negotiators were not reciprocally exclusive

Pertainym:

mutual (concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return)

 Context examples 

Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint which kept them mutually silent on the subject; and Elizabeth felt persuaded that no real confidence could ever subsist between them again.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But, avoiding deforestation and supporting forest regeneration are complementary and mutually reinforcing activities.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

Hidden beneath every forest is a network of fungi living in mutually beneficial relationships with the trees.

(NASA Satellite Images Uncover Underground Forest Fungi, NASA)

"I'll kiss you and welcome: bend your head down." Bessie stooped; we mutually embraced, and I followed her into the house quite comforted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then she remembered how they had drawn mutually away before the revealing moon, and she knew he would know it for a lie.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I have no doubt of their being happy together,” said Emma; “I believe them to be very mutually and very sincerely attached.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mutually exclusive alternative forms of the same gene occupying the same locus on homologous chromosomes, differing in nucleotide sequence and governing the same biochemical and developmental process.

(Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A solution composed of a homogenous liquid that contains active and/or inert ingredient(s) dissolved in a suitable solvent or mixture of mutually miscible solvents.

(Intravenous Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

There was a kind of cold hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A liquid preparation containing one or more drug substances dissolved in a suitable solvent or mixture of mutually miscible solvents that is suitable for injection.

(Injectable Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)