minimally
22
3.7
- adverb
- /ˈmɪnɪməli/
:
mínimamente
- He was only minimally involved in the project, sharing his input very slightly.
- minimally conscious
- minimally invasive
- minimally active
So ground beef, for example, has been minimally processed, right?
- So ground beef, for example, has been minimally processed, right?
- What I what I actually prefer as a vision is is still medications because those are, you know minimally invasive.
- And the insurance industry developed over the century goes actually all the way back to ancient Rome, but only minimally.
- I was reading who's behind it and it it's like just insanely, insanely clean, like grass fed, you know, hormone free cows, minimally processed.
- But it's always best in these blame shifty times not to engage or to engage minimally.
- This blue is minimally processed Whole Foods, right?
- Like I I retain readings like minimally.
- You minimally ask for sure, just sit around watch TV and we're doing things for what you based on what you asked for.
Examples
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The software update only minimally improved the app's performance.
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Yet, these reforms have only minimally addressed schools' changing student population.
Academic text (2015) -
What is the measure of individual freedom that is necessary for a minimally decent society?
Academic text (1999) -
So ground beef, for example, has been minimally processed, right?
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Nonetheless, mental health care has historically contributed only minimally to the overall increase in health care costs.
Academic text (1994) -
The youth is involved with prosocial peers and is minimally involved with problem peers.
Academic text (1994) -
Many value pluralists reject the idea that a decent society must be a minimally liberal one.
Academic text (1999) -
Disc golf courses are generally designed to have a minimally disruptive and minimally invasive effect on the existing environment.
Academic text (2013) -
Years earlier, Dr. Steven Patterson had pioneered a breakthrough in minimally invasive heart surgery.
Fiction book (1999) -
After the adjustments, the impact was minimally noticeable to the users.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A small amount, not very much
∞
1.0
To a small degree or amount
∞
1.0
Happens only by a very small amount
885
1.0
A little, not very much
92
2.7
To a small, gentle degree
55
1.0
With only a small amount of food or drink
35
4.1
By a small amount
4
8.6
By a very small amount that is almost zero
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
An operation using small tools and a camera to bypass blocked blood vessels while the heart beats
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Minimally comes from the word minimum and the Latin minimus, both meaning 'smallest', and you can see the same idea in mini, which means 'small'. So, minimally means 'to the smallest possible extent' or only a very little.