externally

Examples

• All

• Animals in which the female's eggs are fertilised externally.

  The Boys from Brazil (1978)

• You should apply the ointment externally, only on the skin where it's needed.

• So overall, externally the case looks not bad.

• So we got to look externally to get funding.

  Stanford

• We have to treat the body externally as well.

  The Invisible Woman (1940)

• So much more, in fact, that the user need only apply the drug externally on the skin to be affected.

  Belly (1998)

• Yeah, I guess it's only supposed to be used externally.

  Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)

• Externally, his body was normal, except for one thing on the inside of his right thigh.

  The Omen (2006)

• Externally, his body was perfectly normal... except for one small thing in the inside of his right thigh.

  The Omen (1976)

• Scholars have examined recent cultural change in terms of an externally generated academic vocabulary rather than concrete data.

  Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

O

outwardly

vsexternally

18 4.4

As something looks from the outside, not as it really is

describes outside relation or surface rather than mere appearance

E

exogenously

vsexternally

• Specialized

1 8.5

In a way that comes from outside a body or system

focuses on outside location or surface rather than origin

E

extrinsically

vsexternally

1 7.1

Something that comes from outside rather than inside

refers to outside relation or surface not to outside cause

E

exteriorly

vsexternally

7.3

In a way that comes from the outside

relates to the outside in a general not only positional way

Antonyms

I

internally

90 3.3

In a way that happens inside a person, group, or place

How External

externally

23 3.2

extrinsically

1 7.1

internally

90 3.3

intrinsically

22 6.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology