compositionally
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6.9
- adverb
- /ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃənəli/
:
composicionalmente
- The artist considers how the elements work together compositionally before finalizing the piece.
What I liked about it, what I liked about it was compositionally it was definitely great.
- What I liked about it, what I liked about it was compositionally it was definitely great.
Examples
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According to Gautier, the two main murals were linked compositionally and conceptually by the panel entitled Force and Order (Fig. 14).
Academic text (2004) -
Scary, yet seductive, Ramin's works are compositionally and conceptually challenging both on an individual and larger societal level.
Blog text (8) -
Such variation could be compositionally useful.
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Thus, the center is the most important position compositionally on a variety of monuments.
Academic text (1999) -
It's like all of these things work together almost musically and compositionally to evoke a certain feeling.
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In recent years, Grotjahn has introduced his "Face Paintings," which are compositionally based on simple forms but aggressively built layer upon layer.
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Compositionally straightforward, his pictures have less resolution than those of Catherwood, for he favors a broader range of view.
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EJL's first campaign, dubbed "The Human Comedy," comprised five single-drink ads that were compositionally consistent and thematically allied by the tagline, "Because you deserve something nice."
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Nzima's photograph mimics compositionally the entrenched Christian iconographic tradition of the Piet, which in turn has informed the sculptural conventions of war memorial sculpture all over the Western world.
Academic text (2007) -
Nor should we forget that compositionally the painting echoes a drawing with the portraits of Van der Burgh and Brosterhuysen (Fig. 10), the latter an intimate of both Huygens and Van Campen.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
21
5.0
In a way that changes the parts that hold something together
In a way that shows how parts are arranged
In a way that has to do with how something is built
Surface Forms
Morphology
compositionally = compositional (transparent) = composition + al + ly
Adding '-ly' to the adjective 'compositional' to form an adverb is a standard, directly derivable process.
Etymology
Compositionally comes from compose and composition, words that mean 'to put together'. So, to look at something compositionally is to study its parts and how they are arranged to make the whole, which is how we understand sentences, music, or a painting.