externally
- adverb
- /ɪkˈstɜrnəli/
- The device is designed to work externally, allowing easy access to its components.
I'm no longer looking to externally acquire happiness.
- I'm no longer looking to externally acquire happiness.
- And if you're chasing validation externally, it's not a great path.
- We define ourselves by everything externally except ourselves.
- So we got to look externally to get funding.
- Like to to seek externally for answers.
- Does the state of your life, internally or externally, fall short of what you imagined?
- Keeping that point in mind, is the genius externally or internally motivated?
- They need to seek, you know, externally to find this.
- And so my sense of earth is very externally dependent.
- First of all, externally, this is a bit odd.
- It is, in essence, a person who is externally regulated.
- And then the second thing is that we're trying to figure out how we externally motivate people.
- What led you to to start looking internally instead of externally?
- What I've noticed with a lot of people is they try to get their validity externally.
Examples
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Animals in which the female's eggs are fertilised externally.
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You should apply the ointment externally, only on the skin where it's needed.
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So overall, externally the case looks not bad.
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So we got to look externally to get funding.
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We have to treat the body externally as well.
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So much more, in fact, that the user need only apply the drug externally on the skin to be affected.
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Yeah, I guess it's only supposed to be used externally.
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Externally, his body was normal, except for one thing on the inside of his right thigh.
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Externally, his body was perfectly normal... except for one small thing in the inside of his right thigh.
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Scholars have examined recent cultural change in terms of an externally generated academic vocabulary rather than concrete data.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
As something looks from the outside, not as it really is
In a way that comes from outside a body or system
Something that comes from outside rather than inside
In a way that comes from the outside
Antonyms
How External
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word externally comes from the Latin parts ex- meaning 'out' and externus meaning 'outside'. Think of ex- like in exit ('go out'), so externally means 'on the outside' or 'in an outside way'.