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Materially
adv
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Adverb
- 1 In a material manner; with regard to physical things or characteristics.
"Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives."
- 2 To a significant degree.
"In cases of extreme thickening of the coats of the stomach, of a scirrhoid character, where the suffering patients are almost worn out with constant pain, such remedies, applied over the epigastrium, most materially alleviate the distress."
Adverb
- 1 with respect to material aspects wordnet
- 2 to a significant degree wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English materialy; equivalent to material + -ly.
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