finally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English finally, fynaly, fynally, fynaliche, fynalliche, equivalent to final + -ly.
Base: final
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At the end or conclusion; ultimately.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.
gloss: At bottom; ultimately; when all is considered.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To finish (with); lastly (in the present).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
sequence
examples: Finally, I washed my dog.
Finally, I'd like to thanks all the people who helped to make it this far.
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.
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.
gloss: Definitively, comprehensively.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The question of his long-term success has now been finally settled.
Synonyms: eventually
finally
for good
for good and all
in conclusion
in fine
in the end
at the last
lastly
once and for all
ultimately
Antonyms: initially
medially
Related words: finish
in summary
Derived words: and finally
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أَخِيراً
roman: ʔaḵīran
lang: Armenian
word: վերջապես
roman: verǰapes
lang: Belarusian
word: нарэ́шце
roman: naréšcje
lang: Belarusian
word: урэ́шце
roman: uréšcje
lang: Bulgarian
word: накра́я
roman: nakrája
lang: Catalan
word: per fi
lang: Catalan
word: a la fi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 終於 /终于
roman: zhōngyú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 總算 /总算
roman: zǒngsuàn
lang: Czech
word: konečně
lang: Czech
word: nakonec
lang: Danish
word: til sidst
lang: Danish
word: til slut
lang: Danish
word: endelig
lang: Dutch
word: uiteindelijk
lang: Dutch
word: ten slotte
lang: Esperanto
word: fine
lang: Esperanto
word: finfine
lang: Estonian
word: lõpuuks
lang: Finnish
word: lopulta
lang: French
word: enfin
lang: Georgian
word: საბოლოოდ
roman: sabolood
lang: Georgian
word: ბოლოს
roman: bolos
lang: German
word: endlich
lang: Greek
word: επιτέλους
roman: epitélous
lang: Hebrew
word: סוֹף סוֹף
roman: sof sof
lang: Hindi
word: अंततः
roman: antataḥ
lang: Hungarian
word: végül
lang: Icelandic
word: að lokum
lang: Icelandic
word: að síðustu
lang: Italian
word: alla fine
lang: Italian
word: per concludere
lang: Italian
word: infine
lang: Japanese
word: 終に
roman: tsui ni
lang: Japanese
word: 等々
roman: tōtō
lang: Japanese
word: やっと
roman: yatto
lang: Korean
word: 드디어
roman: deudieo
lang: Korean
word: 마침내
roman: machimnae
lang: Macedonian
word: конечно
roman: konečno
lang: Marathi
word: शेवटी
roman: śevṭī
lang: Marathi
word: अखेरीस
roman: akherīs
lang: Navajo
word: hónáásiiʼ
lang: Old English
word: æt nīehstan
lang: Plautdietsch
word: entlich
lang: Polish
word: w końcu
lang: Polish
word: wreszcie
lang: Polish
word: nareszcie
lang: Portuguese
word: por último
lang: Portuguese
word: por fim
lang: Russian
word: наконе́ц
roman: nakonéc
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: на̏јзад
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ко̀начно
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nȁjzad
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kònačno
lang: Slovak
word: konečne
lang: Slovak
word: nakoniec
lang: Slovene
word: končno
lang: Slovene
word: naposled
lang: Spanish
word: finalmente
lang: Spanish
word: por fin
lang: Spanish
word: al fin
lang: Swedish
word: avslutningsvis
lang: Tamil
word: கடைசியாக
roman: kaṭaiciyāka
lang: Ukrainian
word: зре́штою
roman: zréštoju
lang: Ukrainian
word: наре́шті
roman: naréšti
lang: Vietnamese
word: cuối cùng
lang: Yiddish
word: סוף־כּל־סוף
roman: sof-kol-sof