Meanings
- not comparableIn a nominal manner; in name only.
Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).
2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021 - not comparableSlightly.
- not comparableAs a noun.
In Mauritanian Hassaniya, forms like lil-i can function nominally ('mine'), and accordingly have FeSg and Pl variants (lil-t-i, lwaayl-i), see DHF l.lxxv.
2013, Jeffrey Heath, Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic1 more example
In the first phase, the grasp of an abstraction, the concept 'size' does not function nominally, rather it provides a way of thinking the quality of something.
2013, Peter de Bola, The Architecture of Concepts
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁nómn̥
- Proto-Italic*nōmn̥
- Latinnōmen
- Latinnōminālis
- Middle Englishnominalle
- Englishnominal
- Englishnominally
Cite this entry
nominally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nominally
“nominally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nominally. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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