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centrally

centrally

15 3.0
Near the middle or in the most important way, often from the main place that controls things
  • adverb
  • /ˈsɛntrəli/
translation icon : centralmente
  • Peer networks focus centrally on developing social connections and encouraging the formation of friendships.
  • centrally located
  • centrally planned
  • centrally important

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Examples

  • The new library is centrally located in the town square, making it easy for everyone to access.

  • Muller offers one explanation for why ethnic identities figure so centrally in political conflict.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The future American role in each of these areas will be centrally important.

    Academic text (1991)
  • You know, these are things that will be sort of centrally important to what's going on.

  • And I would say in a lot of non Western philosophy too, it is really centrally important.

  • Although information systems are developed centrally at the head office, the branches are highly autonomous.

    Academic text (1991)
  • That's why I picked Moscow as my base; it was centrally located.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Suitable cleaning materials should be sourced and stored centrally as part of the 5S process.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Finally, and perhaps most centrally, the contributors provide a challenge to dominant modes of theorizing.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Schlafly's activism and writing are centrally animated by an admirable and humane concern for those women.

    Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

front and center
vscentrally
  • Informal
51 4.3

In a place where people notice it first

can mean being near the middle rather than specifically prominent
dead center
vscentrally
  • US
3 3.8

The exact middle point of something

is used more loosely to mean near the middle rather than that exact point
medially
vscentrally
  • Specialized
1 7.8

In or toward the middle of something

also implies being the most important rather than only physical position

Antonyms

4 6.8

At the outer edge or in a small unimportant way

How Central

centrally
15 3.0
nationally
160 3.0
regionally
9 4.0
locally
127 1.4
peripherally
4 6.8

Surface Forms

centrally positive

Morphology

centrally = central (transparent) = central + ly

Formed by the regular adverbial suffix '-ly' on the adjective 'central', giving the meaning 'in a central or principal way'.

Etymology

Centrally comes from the simple word center, which originally meant a 'sharp point' and then the middle of a circle. So to do something centrally is to do it 'in the middle' or in the 'most important' place.