meaningfully
- adverb
- /ˈmiːnɪŋfəlɪ/
- How can we even talk meaningfully about the things that we encounter?
- contribute meaningfully
- participate meaningfully
- engage meaningfully
There is no way to meaningfully choose your leaders.
- There is no way to meaningfully choose your leaders.
- There are no actions they can take that will meaningfully change their world.
- How can we even talk meaningfully about the things that we encounter?
- It turns out that it doesn't meaningfully increase the value available to a startup.
- I truly think you can't meaningfully pursue more than three big goals at a time.
- OK, here is performance on those cued recall tests over what I would argue are meaningfully long delays.
- But as I said, most hurt people don't hurt people, or if they do, they quickly and meaningfully attempt to make amends.
- And then you have this idea of the Fed having a meaningfully restrictive position, policy position.
- might shake this up again a little bit, and right now the rank is not meaningfully differentiated at that very top end.
- And do quantum effects bubble up sufficiently into our biology to meaningfully impact our behavior?
- You want to lower it substantially and meaningfully, and that's what I'm going to try to help you do in this video.
- And I really believe that you know to to live, live meaningfully, creatively and you have to live your emotional life.
- I I I assume she never got sick, meaningfully sick.
Examples
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But this does not mean that education productivity cannot be meaningfully measured.
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By providing objective, uniform data, we can have an informed citizenry that meaningfully engages in community decision-making.
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There is no way to meaningfully choose your leaders.
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There are no actions they can take that will meaningfully change their world.
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Listening skills developed with reference to Western music can be meaningfully applied to students' experience of any music.
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Most research designs cannot be used to meaningfully determine whether a practice causes positive changes in student outcomes.
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By adopting these methods, critical educators could respond meaningfully to their critics and strengthen their own practice.
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Have a point of view and share it meaningfully, thoughtfully, respectfully, and with conviction.
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Current goals (e.g., Common Core State Standards, 2010) demand that students do mathematics meaningfully, with reasoning and justifications.
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Moving forward, it should help ensure high-quality data that can meaningfully inform patient-centered care.
Synonyms
By a large, noticeable amount that makes a difference
To act in a determined way to reach a clear goal
In a way that shows something clearly on purpose
Affects the main point in an important way
In a way that shows a person wants to say something without words
Antonyms
How Meaningful
Surface Forms
Morphology
meaningfully = meaningful (transparent) = mean + ing + ful + ly
The word is a regular adverb formed from the adjective 'meaningful' with '-ly', and the adjective itself is transparently built from 'mean' with common derivational suffixes.
Etymology
The word meaningfully comes from the common word meaning, which comes from mean originally 'to intend', plus the ending -fully which means 'full of'. So to do something meaningfully is to do it 'full of' purpose or importance.