eventually
advUK /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃuː.ə.li/ · US /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.ə.li/
Etymology From eventual + -ly. The third sense is influenced by any of several European languages, including Czech eventuálně, French éventuellement, Swedish eventuellt.
1
In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.
- Everyone's true colors will be revealed eventually.
- She didn't arrive. Eventually, we started without her.
4 more examples
- 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.1955 January 23, Charles E. Lee, “The Glasgow Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 24:
- 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.2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
- 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.2024 November 9, Nick Paton Walsh, “Trump’s second term could bring chaos around the world. Will it work?”, in CNN:
2
Mathematics, Sciences Of a sequence For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions.
- Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.
3
Proscribed Possibly, potentially, perhaps.
Non-native speakers' English
- I will come eventually, but haven't decided yet.
- Synonyms
- at last, finally, yet, ultimately, in the end, at length, at long last, by and by, eventually, in due course, in due time, in time, in the fullness of time, in the long run, in the long term, sooner or later
- Antonyms
- immediately, promptly, soon
- Related terms
- frequently, one day, some day, sooner or later, at leisure, sometime
- Hypernyms
- subsequently
- Hyponyms
- finally, just in time