nominally

Meanings

• adjective

  Given or valued mainly for its name or title rather than for its actual worth or performance.

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Pronunciation

1. /ˈnɑmɪnəli/
   
   
   
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Rhymes

Words rhyming with nominally
minally , jolly , olly

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Homophones

Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,

1. nominally (en) : Given or valued mainly for its name or title rather than for its actual worth or performance
   

2. nominal (en) : Serving only as a name; symbolic; designating or representing a person or thing in name only.
   

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Variants

List of all variants of nominally that leads to same result
nominal , nominally

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Etymology

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From Middle English nominally, from nominate, from Latin nominare 'give a name to, make known'

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Trivia

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1. The term 'nominally' is often used in finance to describe a company's financial health when its stock price is high, but its earnings are low.

2. The term 'nominally' is also used in mathematics to describe a function that is defined for all real or complex numbers, except for a few specific values.

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Related Concepts

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1. value: The importance, worth, or usefulness of something.

2. title: A name, especially a formal one, given to a person, position, or work.

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Quotes

Quotes by authors and personalities

1. Each of the ten years of "nominal" peace saw plenty of bloodshed.

   - Theodore Roosevelt,{it}The Winning of the West: 1769-1776{/it},(1894) 1995

2. What gave it resonance was that she was reflecting—in a fun-house mirror—the thuggish behavior of her "nominal" betters.

   - Hendrik Hertzberg,{it}New Yorker{/it},5 Dec. 2005

3. Instead they will decentralize and devolve power, and rely on the people over whom they have "nominal" authority to be self-organizing.

   - Francis Fukuyama,{it}Atlantic{/it},May 1999

4. Approaching his 68th birthday, Rockefeller had never imagined that his twilight years would be so eventful. His fortune had failed to purchase him even a poor man's mite of tranquillity. As "nominal" president of Standard Oil, he was in a bind, responsible for actions he had not approved.

   - Ron Chernow,{it}Business Week{/it},18 May 1998

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How to Memorize "nominally"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a person being given a title or a name that doesn't truly represent their abilities or worth.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with the idea of someone being given a title or name that doesn't reflect their true value.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic like: 'Nominal' stands for 'Name Only Makes It Appear'

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