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单词 meaningfully
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Definition of meaningfully in English:

meaningfully

adverb ˈmiːnɪŋfʊliˈmiːnɪŋf(ə)liˈminɪŋfəli
  • 1In a way that has meaning.

    the parts, however entertaining individually, must cohere meaningfully
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One could truthfully and meaningfully use the hackneyed phrase, "A great evening was had by all."
    • It makes it impossible to explain meaningfully what is consumed and why.
    • At least for a subset of children with ADHD, medication attributions may be meaningfully related to functioning in important domains.
    • The doors loom ominously at the back of the stage and open or shut meaningfully, or meaninglessly, dependent on your view.
    • What we might want to call "intellectual" work cannot rightly be distinguished, or at least meaningfully described as distinct, from sociocultural interaction.
    • We can use the word "tree" meaningfully, and with full understanding, without a little image of a tree forming in our mind.
    • The real issue is not whether such a process takes place, but how comprehensively and meaningfully it does so.
    • It becomes progressively more difficult to apply the term meaningfully to work later than the Napoleonic period.
    • A youth is asked to speak meaningfully about something that was important to the generation before his but not to his own.
    • He enjoyed adorning his Latin poems with words and phrases that are sometimes ornamental in function, sometimes more meaningfully allusive.
    1. 1.1 In a serious, important, or worthwhile manner.
      even isolated communities can contribute meaningfully to national development
      the right to participate meaningfully in the decisions that affect one's life
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This increasingly challenged the ability of individual producers to stay informed and meaningfully involved with issues directly impacting their livelihood.
      • Identify how you can become a useful resource to the company and contribute meaningfully to its continued success.
      • If properly recognized, there are local resources and skills that can be meaningfully harnessed.
      • The logic of specialization in the knowledge necessary to participate meaningfully in such speculative poetics harbors within it a repressed identity.
      • He comes alive and is able to relate meaningfully to others outside the town, in the surroundings of the moors and the sky.
      • Is it possible to connect meaningfully to anyone?
      • Something more than detached observation is needed to create "stories" in which people engage meaningfully with one another.
      • Issues such as domestic abuse and addiction are used more meaningfully than as convenient plot devices.
      • It is far too early to speculate meaningfully on what the implications of this may end up being.
      • In my opinion, they, like recent historical events, are too new to be meaningfully evaluated.
    2. 1.2 In a way that communicates something without directly expressing it.
      when he reports to work, his supervisor stares meaningfully at the clock
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They pass and re-pass one another, never touching, and they stand meaningfully on rainy street corners.
      • The stack of unfinished books and yet-to-be-started borrowed books and newly purchased books beside my bed clears its throat meaningfully.
      • He wears leather pants and a trench coat and glowers meaningfully!
      • The tattooist was halfway through the job when another customer tapped him gently on the shoulder and nodded meaningfully at his handiwork.
      • The networks have taken it in turns to point meaningfully at the house, explaining to the camera who was shot and why the police commissioner is in so much trouble.
      • "I don't think I've ever been so thrilled to work with anyone, but we've had to go through some"—she hesitates meaningfully—"times."
      • A seasonal greeting, or the merest mention of the C-word, is enough to get the landlord shaking the swear-box meaningfully.
      • He glanced meaningfully at her.
      • I've had so many creepy experiences with dudes just hanging out, staring at you meaningfully and trying to start schmoozy conversations.
      • The walls glowed red with importance, and small white dots marched meaningfully across the map to show him that all was well within the DataCorp Mainframe.
 
 

Definition of meaningfully in US English:

meaningfully

adverbˈmēniNGfəlēˈminɪŋfəli
  • 1In a way that has meaning.

    the parts, however entertaining individually, must cohere meaningfully
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At least for a subset of children with ADHD, medication attributions may be meaningfully related to functioning in important domains.
    • We can use the word "tree" meaningfully, and with full understanding, without a little image of a tree forming in our mind.
    • It makes it impossible to explain meaningfully what is consumed and why.
    • The doors loom ominously at the back of the stage and open or shut meaningfully, or meaninglessly, dependent on your view.
    • One could truthfully and meaningfully use the hackneyed phrase, "A great evening was had by all."
    • It becomes progressively more difficult to apply the term meaningfully to work later than the Napoleonic period.
    • He enjoyed adorning his Latin poems with words and phrases that are sometimes ornamental in function, sometimes more meaningfully allusive.
    • What we might want to call "intellectual" work cannot rightly be distinguished, or at least meaningfully described as distinct, from sociocultural interaction.
    • The real issue is not whether such a process takes place, but how comprehensively and meaningfully it does so.
    • A youth is asked to speak meaningfully about something that was important to the generation before his but not to his own.
    1. 1.1 In a serious, important, or worthwhile manner.
      even isolated communities can contribute meaningfully to national development
      the right to participate meaningfully in the decisions that affect one's life
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He comes alive and is able to relate meaningfully to others outside the town, in the surroundings of the moors and the sky.
      • If properly recognized, there are local resources and skills that can be meaningfully harnessed.
      • Issues such as domestic abuse and addiction are used more meaningfully than as convenient plot devices.
      • In my opinion, they, like recent historical events, are too new to be meaningfully evaluated.
      • Is it possible to connect meaningfully to anyone?
      • This increasingly challenged the ability of individual producers to stay informed and meaningfully involved with issues directly impacting their livelihood.
      • Identify how you can become a useful resource to the company and contribute meaningfully to its continued success.
      • Something more than detached observation is needed to create "stories" in which people engage meaningfully with one another.
      • It is far too early to speculate meaningfully on what the implications of this may end up being.
      • The logic of specialization in the knowledge necessary to participate meaningfully in such speculative poetics harbors within it a repressed identity.
    2. 1.2 In a way that communicates something without directly expressing it.
      when he reports to work, his supervisor stares meaningfully at the clock
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A seasonal greeting, or the merest mention of the C-word, is enough to get the landlord shaking the swear-box meaningfully.
      • The networks have taken it in turns to point meaningfully at the house, explaining to the camera who was shot and why the police commissioner is in so much trouble.
      • The walls glowed red with importance, and small white dots marched meaningfully across the map to show him that all was well within the DataCorp Mainframe.
      • He glanced meaningfully at her.
      • I've had so many creepy experiences with dudes just hanging out, staring at you meaningfully and trying to start schmoozy conversations.
      • The tattooist was halfway through the job when another customer tapped him gently on the shoulder and nodded meaningfully at his handiwork.
      • They pass and re-pass one another, never touching, and they stand meaningfully on rainy street corners.
      • The stack of unfinished books and yet-to-be-started borrowed books and newly purchased books beside my bed clears its throat meaningfully.
      • "I don't think I've ever been so thrilled to work with anyone, but we've had to go through some"—she hesitates meaningfully—"times."
      • He wears leather pants and a trench coat and glowers meaningfully!
 
 
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