nominally

Adverb

Meaning

In a nominal manner; by name; in name only; not in reality.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

just rather little say generally commonly slightly somewhat apparently fairly seemingly barely nominal hardly reasonably
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Antonyms

ultra super way much right rather
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Phrases with the word

nominally priced

Examples

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Europe is today only nominally Christian. It is really worshiping Mammon. Virchand Gandhi

To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity. Lysander Spooner

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. George Grey

If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance. Thomas Jefferson

A fierce critic of the politics of personalities and power, Chandra Shekhar stood for that of ideology and social change and the fact he was arrested (under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act) in 1975, despite being nominally a member of the ruling party, possibly says it all. Chandra Shekhar

Close letter words and terms

nominalize nominalized adjective nominalizer nominally priced nominalness nominant