Word Meanings - VIRTUALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.

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• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• EFFICACY
  Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. "Of noxious efficacy." Milton. Syn. -- Virtue; force;
• EFFECT
  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
• PRACTICALLY
  1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless. 2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject. 3.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• EFFECTION
  Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale.
• EFFECTLESS
  Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.
• VIRTUAL
  1. Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing. Heat and cold have a virtual transition, without communication of substance. Bacon. Every kind that lives, Fomented
• EFFECTER
  One who effects.
• EFFECTUOUSLY
  Effectively.
• EFFECTUATION
  Act of effectuating.
• VIRTUALLY
  In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
• EFFECTIBLE
  Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible. Sir T. Browne.
• EFFECTUAL
  Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive. Shak. Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion. Macaulay. Effectual calling , a doctrine concerning the work of the
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• ACTUALLY
  1. Actively. "Neither actually . . . nor passively." Fuller. 2. In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.
• VIRTUALITY
  1. The quality or state of being virtual. 2. Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence. In one grain of corn, there lieth dormant a virtuality of many other. Sir T. Browne.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
• COEFFICACY
  Joint efficacy.
• INEFFECTUALLY
  Without effect; in vain. Hereford . . . had been besieged for abouineffectually by the Scots. Ludlow.
• INEFFECTUALNESS
  Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. The ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• NONEFFECTIVE
  Not fit or available for duty. (more info) 1. Not effective.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.