finally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.nl̩.i/
homophone: finely stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -aɪnəli
Etymology: From Middle English finally, fynaly, fynally, fynaliche, fynalliche, equivalent to final + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.
synonyms: eventually
in the end
antonyms: initially
glosses: At the end or conclusion; ultimately.
examples: text: In a world in which "like singing,/ the next day's shriek for ease rises," in a world whose "survivors" are "capable of any cry, never done/ clasping in the city's shaken places," it is perhaps not surprising to find a dehumanizing but finally protective system of alienation imposing itself.
ref: 1975 December 20, Rudy Kikel, “The Closed Closet Policy and the Poetry of Paul Monette”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 9:
text: Cyberneticism is, finally, a refined form of scientism, and therefore it is also more dangerous. This form of scientism is not based on linear causality, as mechanistic thought is; rather, it is based on circular causality.
ref: 2024, Egbert Schuurman, Ruben Alvarado, Technology and Christianity: Essays on the Interface, page 113:
glosses: At bottom; ultimately; when all is considered.
examples: text: Finally, I washed my dog.
text: Finally, I'd like to thanks all the people who helped to make it this far.
text: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:
synonyms: word: at last
word: at length
word: endly
word: at last
word: at length
word: endly
word: finally
word: last
word: lastly
word: ultimately
glosses: To finish (with); lastly (in the present).
examples: text: The question of his long-term success has now been finally settled.
topics: manner
synonyms: word: completely
word: thoroughly
word: totally
word: absolutely
word: all-out
word: all the way
word: altogether
word: at large
word: at length
word: cap-a-pie
word: categorically
word: completely
word: detailly
word: downright
word: entirely
word: exhaustively
word: finally
word: first and last
word: flat-out
word: flat out
word: from aardvark to zymurgy
word: from A to Z
word: from head to toe
word: from soup to nuts
word: from stem to stern
word: from the rooter to the tooter
word: from top to bottom
word: from top to toe
word: fully
word: handsomely
word: heartily
word: head to foot
word: head to tail
word: head to toe
word: hook
word: line
word: and sinker
word: in detail
word: in full
word: lock
word: stock
word: and barrel
word: one hundred percent
word: out-and-out
word: out and out
word: outright
word: particularly
word: perfectly
word: plumb
word: purely
word: quite
word: right
word: root and branch
word: soundly
word: soup-to-nuts
word: straight up
word: through and through
word: top to tail
word: top to toe
word: totally
word: totes
word: to the bone
word: to the core
word: to the full
word: utterly
word: well and truly
word: whole
word: whole cloth
word: wholly
glosses: Definitively, comprehensively.
Synonyms: word: eventually
word: finally
word: for good
word: for good and all
word: in conclusion
word: in fine
word: in the end
word: lastly
word: once and for all
word: ultimately
Derived terms: and finally
Related terms: word: finish
word: in summary