Indeed vs Finally - What's the difference?
indeed | finally |
(lb) Truly; in fact; actually.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed , a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed , did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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*:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed , allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
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At the end or conclusion; ultimately.
(sequence) To finish (with); lastly.
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, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
(manner) Definitively, comprehensively.
As adverbs the difference between indeed and finally
is that indeed is truly; in fact; actually while finally is at the end or conclusion; ultimately.As an interjection indeed
is indicates emphatic agreement.indeed
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Alternative forms
* endeed (obsolete)Adverb
(-)citation, passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed , contain bacteria,
Synonyms
* (actually) certainly, definitely, in fact, indubitably, really, surely, truly, undoubtedlySynonyms
* absolutely * indubitably * okay * sure thingStatistics
*External links
*indeed] at [http://septicscompanion.com The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary