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Definition: Vitally |
VitallyAdverb1. To a vital degree; "this is vitally important. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vitally" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Crosswords: Vitally |
| English words defined with "vitally": essential ♦ indispensable ♦ kill ♦ life-and-death, life-or-death. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive of both you and me? It's your weight and my I.Q. (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Conversion. Silverware plant. As many as 10,000 gross of spoons per weeks have been produced by this Eastern company which is now undergoing conversion to production of surgical instruments vitally needed by the Army Medical Corps. The exhibit pictured he.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Antiaircraft gun carriage. Machining operation on the hold-down clamp for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed mi.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Partly finished open hearth furnaces and stacks for a new steel mill under construction which will soon be producing vitally needed steel.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Partly finished open hearth furnaces and stacks for a steel mill under construction which will soon be producing vitally needed steel, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Sunlight is the ultimate source of energy and is vitally important to life as we know it. However, absorption of incident solar energy by components of the skin can cause a variety of pathological sequelae. (references) | |
Business | However, an agent in the local market is vitally important in Turkey. (references) | |
Economic History | India | It is vitally important for U.S. firms to check the potential representatives reputation. (references) |
Russia | Given reform and moderate growth, Russia has the potential to become a major market for U.S. industrial equipment and engineering services which are vitally needed to upgrade its industry and agriculture. (references) | |
Switzerland | Switzerland's important machinery industry, together with metals and electronics, employs 9 percent of the country's workforce and normally contributes around 40 percent to Swiss export revenues and will continue to be vitally important to the health of the Swiss economy. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Although education is primarily a responsibility of the States and local communities, and rightly so, yet the Nation as a whole is vitally concerned in its development everywhere to the highest standards and to complete universality. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Vitally" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vitally" is used about 260 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 260 | 18,316 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "vitally": vitally-needed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vitally"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjallërisht (briskly, energetically, sprightly, vividly, with vivacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | على نحو مفعم بالحيوية (racily), بنشاط بالغ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | живо (alive, graphically, jauntily, lively, quickly, racily, roundly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 非常 (Abundantly, Badly, Dearly, terribly, Very, Very's). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | d'une importance capitale, absolument. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | wichtig (big, great, important, momentous, momentously, necessary, prominent, relevant, serious, significant, weightily, weighty), wesentlich (appreciable, considerable, considerably, esentially, essential, essentially, fundamental, fundamentally, important, integral, intrinsic, material, materially, primary, prime, substantial, substantially, substantive, vastly, vital), höchst (awfully, bitterly, considerably, enormously, extreme, extremely, greatly, hegemonic, high, highest, highly, most, paramount, paramountly, punctiliously, superlatively, supreme, surprisingly, topmost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | alapvetően (basically, essentially, fundamentally), életbevágóan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 생명 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | dy slane femoil, dy bunneydagh (fundamentally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itallyvay жизненно. (various references) od životnog značaja, nužno (needs), glavno (chiefly, main), životno (livelily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "vitally": intravitally, supravitally. (additional references) | |
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"Vitally" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: itally, vagally, vitale, vitaley, vitali, Vitalie, Vitellius, vituall, vitually. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vitally" (pronounced vī"tulē) |
| 5 | -ī" t u l ē | mightily. |
| 4 | -t u l ē | accidentally, anecdotally, brutally, coincidentally, continentally, developmentally, digitally, environmentally, experimentally, fatally, fundamentally, governmentally, hastily, haughtily, heartily, horizontally, incidentally, incrementally, jauntily, mentally, monumentally, mortally, nattily, scantily, subtly, temperamentally, testily, totally, wittily. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anencephaly, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, diagonally, diametrically, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, morally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, successfully, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: laity, tally, villa, vital. | |
-3 letters: alit, ally, illy, lati, lilt, lily, tail, tali, tall, till, tivy, vail, vial, vill, vita, yill. | |
-4 letters: ail, ait, all, alt, ill, ivy, lat, lav, lay, lit, tav, til, vat, via. | |
-5 letters: ai, al, at, ay, it, la, li, ta, ti, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-t-v-y" | |
+2 letters: pivotally, trivially, valiantly, virtually. | |
+3 letters: ablatively, illatively, livability, lovability, relatively, vaultingly, vertically, vigilantly, volatility, vortically. | |
+4 letters: emulatively, genitivally, intervalley, inviolately, liveability, lucratively, plaintively, solvability, talkatively, vectorially, versatilely, vestigially, violability, voluntarily. | |
+5 letters: adjectivally, afflictively, ambivalently, assaultively, availability, cumulatively, devotionally, equivalently, evidentially, intervalleys, intravitally, irrelatively, irrelevantly, palliatively, supravitally, vocationally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 74 61 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. - .- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i t a l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0074 0061 006C 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56758667787891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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