Initially vs Eventually - What's the difference?
initially | eventually |
At the beginning.
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(mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.
As adverbs the difference between initially and eventually
is that initially is at the beginning while eventually is in the end.initially
English
Adverb
(-)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
Synonyms
* at firstAntonyms
* finallyeventually
English
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.
