What is the difference between finally and eventually?
finally | eventually | Synonyms |
At the end or conclusion; ultimately.
(sequence) To finish (with); lastly.
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(manner) Definitively, comprehensively.
In the end.
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(mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.
Eventually is a synonym of finally.
As adverbs the difference between finally and eventually
is that finally is at the end or conclusion; ultimately while eventually is in the end.finally
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(-)Synonyms
* at length * at last * endlyAntonyms
* (ultimately) initiallyeventually
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Adverb
(-)- 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.