Eventually

/ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃuː.ə.li/ · adverb

Meaning

In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks..

Definitions by Sense

1. In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.
2. (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions.
3. (proscribed, non-native speakers' English) Possibly, potentially, perhaps.

Example Sentences

Everyone's true colors will be revealed eventually.

She didn't arrive. Eventually, we started without her.

He hopes eventually to attend nursing school.

Eventually, the railway opened on Monday, December 14, 1896, with a universal fare of 1d. collected at the turnstiles, and conditions were immediately chaotic, as many passengers travelled round and round, and refused to leave the cars.

It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has known the day would come when the idea of another “forever war” became unappealing to NATO, and the world’s largest military alliance eventually sought to wind down its involvement.

Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.

I will come eventually, but haven't decided yet.

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