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virtually

  • adverb
  • vir·tu·al·ly
  • /ˈvɚ.t͡ʃə.wə.li/

almost but not quite.

Other meanings

  1. in essence or functionally, but not in fact, formally, or technically.

    “virtually a member of the family”

  2. Of a subgroup of finite index.

Word history

From Middle English "vertually".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “virtually” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.