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Eventually vs Terminally - What's the difference?

eventually | terminally |

As adverbs the difference between eventually and terminally

is that eventually is in the end while terminally is in a terminal manner.

eventually

English

Adverb

(-)
  • In the end.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage ,
    • It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
  • (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.

    • Synonyms

    * at last * finally * yet * ultimately * in the end

    See also

    * frequently

    See also

    * sooner or later

    terminally

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a terminal manner.
  • Leading to death; lasting until death.
  • :: terminally ill
  • * 2009', Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, '' It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a '''Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic, and Occasionally Inebriated Woman .
  • (military, of missile guidance) To the target.
  • :: terminally guided
  • (location) At the end.
  • * 1919 , Robert Ridgway, Herbert Friedmann, The Birds of North and Middle America , Part 8, Issue 1919, page 276,
    • some of the feathers (especially posterior scapulars) with the broad edgings more rufescent and passing into whitish terminally ;
  • * 2005 , Terence Cosgrove, Colloid Science: Principles, methods and applications , page 119,
    • In its simplest form this approach uses a lattice with a single chain terminally attached to the interface.
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