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/
Adverb
eventually (not comparable)
- In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.
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.
- (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions.
Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.
Synonyms
Translations
in the end
- Afrikaans: uiteindelik (af), ten slotte
- Bulgarian: накра́я (bg) (nakrája)
- Catalan: finalment (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 最後 (ceoi3 hau6), 終於 (ci2 zung1), 始終 (yue) (ci2 zung1), 終須 (zung1 seoi1)
- Mandarin: 最後 (zh), 最后 (zh) (zuìhòu), 終於 (zh), 终于 (zh) (zhōngyú) (used in the present), 終究 (zh), 终究 (zh) (zhōngjiǔ), 終歸 (zh), 终归 (zh) (zhōngguī), 始終 (zh), 始终 (zh) (shǐzhōng)
- Czech: konečně (cs), nakonec (cs)
- Danish: til sidst, omsider, i sidste instans, med tiden, langt om længe
- Dutch: uiteindelijk (nl)
- Esperanto: fine (eo)
- Finnish: lopulta (fi), viimeinkin
- French: finalement (fr), à terme (fr), à la fin (fr), finir par (fr) (verbal form)
- German: schließlich (de), letztendlich (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: χρόνῳ m (khrónōi)
- Hungarian: végül (hu), végül is
- Ido: tandem (io)
- Indonesian: akhirnya (id), pada akhirnya
- Interlingua: finalmente, al fin
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- Irish: i ndeireadh na dála
- Italian: alla fine, infine (it)
- Japanese: とうとう (tōtō), 結局 (ja) (けっきょく, kekkyoku), ついに (ja) (tsui-ni), 最終的に (ja) (さいしゅうてきに, saishūteki ni), やっと (yatto)
- Korean: 결국(結局) (ko) (gyeolguk)
- Latin: tandem
- Macedonian: на кра́јот (na krájot)
- Maori: nāwai, nāwai rā, nāwai rā, tāria te wā
- Norwegian: omsider
- Bokmål: til slutt, etter hvert (no)
- Nynorsk: til slutt
- Polish: w końcu (pl), wreszcie (pl)
- Portuguese: finalmente (pt), enfim (pt), no final das contas
- Romanian: în fine, la urma urmei, în cele din urmă
- Russian: в конце́ концо́в (ru) (v koncé koncóv), в коне́чном счёте (v konéčnom sčóte), в ито́ге (ru) (v itóge)
- Scottish Gaelic: aig a' cheann thall
- Serbo-Croatian: eventualno (sh), konačno (sh), na kraju, na koncu
- Spanish: al final, finalmente (es)
- Swedish: så småningom (sv), slutligen (sv), till slut (sv)
- Turkish: sonunda (tr)
- Ukrainian: зре́штою (uk) (zréštoju)
- Vietnamese: cuối cùng (vi)
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