eventually
adv/ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃuː.ə.li/UK/ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.ə.li/US
Etymology
From eventual + -ly. The third sense is influenced by any of several European languages, including Czech eventuálně, French éventuellement, Swedish eventuellt.
Definitions
In the end
In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.
- Everyone's true colors will be revealed eventually.
- She didn't arrive. Eventually, we started without her.
- He hopes eventually to attend nursing school.
For some tail
For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions.
- Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.
Possibly, potentially, perhaps.
- I will come eventually, but haven't decided yet.
The neighborhood
- synonymfinally
- synonymyet
- synonymultimately
- synonymin the end
- synonymat length
- synonymat long last
- synonymby and by
- synonymeventually
- synonymin due course
- synonymin due time
- synonymin time
- synonymin the fullness of time
- antonymimmediately
- antonympromptly
- antonymsoon
- neighborfrequently
- neighborone day
- neighborsome day
- neighborsooner or later
- neighborat leisure
- neighborsometime
- neighborsubsequently
- neighborfinally
- neighborjust in time
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for eventually. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA