different between lately vs finally
lately
English
Etymology
From late +? -ly [15th C.]. Compare Old English læt??e (“slowly, tardily”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?le?t.li/
- Hyphenation: late?ly
Adverb
lately (comparative latelier or more lately, superlative lateliest or most lately)
- Recently; not long ago; of late.
- I'd lately returned from Japan.
- It's only lately that I've been well enough to get out of bed.
Synonyms
- freshly, lately; see also Thesaurus:recently
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Talley, lealty, yell at
lately From the web:
- what lately means
- lately what tense
- lately what does that mean
- what's up lately
- what is lately social
- what happened lately
- what do lately mean
- what rhymes lately
finally
English
Etymology
From Middle English finally, fynaly, fynally, fynaliche, fynalliche, equivalent to final +? -ly.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fa?.n?l.i/
- (US) IPA(key): /?fa?.nl?.i/, /?fa?n.li/
- Homophone: finely (some US dialects)
Adverb
finally (not comparable)
- At the end or conclusion; ultimately.
- Synonyms: eventually, in the end; see also Thesaurus:finally
- Antonym: initially
- (sequence) To finish (with); lastly (in the present).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:finally.
- Synonyms: at last, at length, endly; see also Thesaurus:lastly
- (manner) Definitively, comprehensively.
- Synonyms: completely, thoroughly, totally; see also Thesaurus:completely
Translations
finally From the web:
- what finally ended the great depression
- what finally convinces the animals to fight
- what finally convinces malcolm that macduff is loyal
- what finally happened to the seminoles
- what finally happens to captain ahab
- what finally ended the spanish flu
- what finally allows melinda to speak
- what finally ended the reign of terror
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