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eventually definition

Overview

This page has two definitions of eventually in English. Eventually is an adverb. Examples of how to use eventually in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .

English

Etymology

eventual +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪ.ˈvɛn.t͡ʃuː.ə.li/, /ɪ.ˈvɛn.t͡ʃʊ.li/, /ɪ.ˈvɛn.tjʊ.li/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɪ.ˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.ə.li/, /ɪ.ˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.li/
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Adverb

eventually (not comparable)

  1. In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.
    Everyone's true colors will be revealed eventually.
    • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
      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.
  2. (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions.
    Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.

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