an adverb that affects the meaning of a whole sentence, for example ‘fortunately’ in the sentence ‘Fortunately, no one was injured.’ or ‘economically’ in the sentence ‘This could be disastrous for the country economically.’
Synonyms and related words
Types and forms of adverbs
adv.
adverb
adverbial
sentence adverb
noun countable linguistics
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Word Forms
singular
sentence adverb
plural
sentence adverbs
DEFINITIONS1
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an adverb that affects the meaning of a whole sentence, for example “fortunately” in the sentence “Fortunately, no one was injured.” or “economically” in the sentence “This could be disastrous for the country economically.”