ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Materially

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Materially is an adverb meaning In a material manner; with regard to physical things or characteristics.

Meaning

In a material manner; with regard to physical things or characteristics.

More Meanings

  1. To a significant degree.

Example Sentences

Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
In cases of extreme thickening of the coats of the stomach, of a scirrhoid character, where the suffering patients are almost worn out with constant pain, such remedies, applied over the epigastrium, most materially alleviate the distress.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include substance, concretely, substantive, basically, fundamentally, essentially.

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