VITALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vitally mean? 

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

1. to a vital degree

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a vital degree

Context example:

this is vitally important

Pertainym:

vital (performing an essential function in the living body)

 Context examples 

And therefore I consider it vitally important that Mr. Micawber should feel his position.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If the project is vitally important to you, time your presentations and agreements to late in the month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

By the kindness of Lord Godalming, I am empowered to read her letters and papers, for I am deeply concerned about certain matters vitally important.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To-night. Same hour. Same place. Two taps. Most vitally important. Your own safety at stake.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Absolutely or vitally necessary; indispensable.

(Essential, NCI Thesaurus)

The answer to this question is vitally important if we are to understand the dynamic history of all nearby galaxies, both large and small, as the gravitational field of the most massive will command the action.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An office within the National Institutes of Health that monitors scientific progress in basic and clinical research involving recombinant DNA and human gene transfer, advises federal departments and agencies on ways to minimize the possibility that knowledge and technologies emanating from vitally important biological research will be misused to threaten public health or national security, provides policy advice to the Department of Health and Human Services on the broad array of complex medical, ethical, legal, and social issues raised by the development and use of genetic technologies and Xenotransplantation.

(Office of Biotechnology Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

She appeared to me to take great care of the Doctor, and to like him very much, though I never thought her vitally interested in the Dictionary: some cumbrous fragments of which work the Doctor always carried in his pockets, and in the lining of his hat, and generally seemed to be expounding to her as they walked about.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)