preeminently

Adverb

Meaning

In a preeminent degree.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pre-eminently most mainly particularly primarily especially notably predominantly famously principally prominently chiefly extraordinarily acutely eminently

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Antonyms

lastly finally poorly badly wrongly immorally

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Examples

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. Leon Kass

Ideality is preëminently the foundation of Mathematics. Benjamin Peirce

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. Grover Cleveland

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. Stendhal

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. William Shenstone

Close letter words and terms

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