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Meaning of "imperfectively" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMPERFECTIVELY

imperfectively  [ˌɪmpəˈfektɪvlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMPERFECTIVELY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Imperfectively is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES IMPERFECTIVELY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of imperfectively in the English dictionary

The definition of imperfectively in the dictionary is with relation to the market situation that exists when one or more of the necessary conditions for perfect competition do not hold.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMPERFECTIVELY


attractively
əˈtræktɪvlɪ
collectively
kəˈlektɪvlɪ
connectively
kəˈnektɪvlɪ
destructively
dɪˈstrʌktɪvlɪ
effectively
ɪˈfɛktɪvlɪ
electively
ɪˈlɛktɪvlɪ
inductively
ɪnˈdʌktɪvlɪ
instinctively
ɪnˈstɪŋktɪvlɪ
intellectively
ˌɪntɪˈlektɪvlɪ
introspectively
ˌɪntrəˈspektɪvlɪ
irrespectively
ˌɪrɪˈspektɪvlɪ
objectively
əbˈdʒɛktɪvlɪ
perspectively
pəˈspektɪvlɪ
prospectively
prəˈspɛktɪvlɪ
protectively
prəˈtektɪvlɪ
respectively
rɪˈspɛktɪvlɪ
retrospectively
ˌrɛtrəʊˈspɛktɪvlɪ
selectively
sɪˈlɛktɪvlɪ
subjectively
səbˈdʒɛktɪvlɪ
unreflectively
ˌʌnrɪˈflektɪvlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMPERFECTIVELY

imperceptively
imperceptiveness
imperceptivity
impercipience
imperf.
imperfect
imperfect competition
imperfect contrition
imperfect market
imperfection
imperfective
imperfectly
imperfectness
imperforate
imperforation
imperia
imperial
imperial gallon
imperial preference
imperial system

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMPERFECTIVELY

actively
aggressively
alternatively
collaboratively
comparatively
creatively
cumulatively
excessively
exclusively
extensively
lively
lovely
massively
negatively
positively
progressively
qualitatively
quantitatively
relatively
successively
tentatively

Synonyms and antonyms of imperfectively in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «imperfectively» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of imperfectively to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of imperfectively from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «imperfectively» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

imperfectively
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

imperfectively
570 millions of speakers

English

imperfectively
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

imperfectively
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

imperfectively
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

imperfectively
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imperfectively
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

imperfectively
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

imperfectively
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak sempurna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

imperfectively
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

imperfectively
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

imperfectively
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Imperfectively
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

imperfectively
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

imperfectively
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपरिपक्वपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

imperfectively
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

imperfectively
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

imperfectively
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

imperfectively
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

imperfectively
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

imperfectively
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

imperfectively
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

imperfectively
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

imperfectively
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of imperfectively

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPERFECTIVELY»

The term «imperfectively» is used very little and occupies the 181.907 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPERFECTIVELY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «imperfectively» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «imperfectively» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about imperfectively

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPERFECTIVELY»

Discover the use of imperfectively in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to imperfectively and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Tense, Aspect and Action: Empirical and Theoretical ...
As e makes no assumptions about any temporal limit of the situation of the core clause, it is also used in generic, timeless, and omnitemporal statements. When it is for some reason unnatural to interpret the core clause situation imperfectively,  ...
Carl Bache, Hans Basbøll, Carl-Erik Lindberg, 1994
2
Cognitive Grammar : An Introduction: An Introduction
The posture verbs can also be used imperfectively, as in (18)(c), which suggests that the park is the statue's permanent home. Suppose, however, that the statue is placed there only temporarily, while its permanent location is being prepared.
San Diego (Emeritus) Ronald W. Langacker Professor University of California, 2008
3
At the Same Time-: The Expression of Simultaneity in Learner ...
At the same time, they use much less imperfectively derived verbs than the Czech native speakers as well as the English learner group. English learners, on the other hand, never match the amount of derived imperfective or perfective verbs ...
‎2004
4
From Now to Eternity
contrast to (40)-(41), (42) demonstrates that position e1 can also be perfectively viewed (e and e' are merely concomitant, so that e = e1 is not imperfectively viewed, but perfectively viewed). The obvious conclusion of this apparent paradox is ...
Jesse Mortelmans, Tanja Mortelmans, Walter De Mulder, 2011
5
Essentials of Cognitive Grammar
The posture verbs can also be used imperfectively, as in (18)(c), which suggests that the park is the statue's permanent home. Suppose, however, that the statue is placed there only temporarily, while its permanent location is being prepared.
Ronald W. Langacker, 2013
6
Verbal Aspect in Discourse: Contributions to the Semantics ...
"to understand, grasp" poljubit* "to come to love"). Accomplishments can be viewed imperfectively (Boris citai1 knigu "Boris 'read' the book"), in which 'read' stands for any of the imperfective contextual variants of durative, progressive, iterative, ...
Nils B. Thelin, 1990
7
The Semantic Structure of Spanish: Meaning and Grammatical Form
On the other hand, in (70b) the speaker views the situation imperfectively, whichis to say that the speaker has chosen the form which depicts the middle of the situation without regard to the fact that it obviously had begun at some point and ...
Larry Dawain King, 1992
8
Tense and Aspect in Modern Colloquial Japanese
Such a subjective distinction in English must be considered either neutralized or irrelevant. An English sentence such as “I read a novel last night” can be said either perfectively or imperfectively in Russian depending upon how the action is  ...
Matsuo Soga, 2007
9
Aspect in English: A `Common-Sense' View of the Interplay ...
First, it is just a general tendency for sentences with a bare plural like those in (58 ) to be read imperfectively, not that they are to be regarded as always imperfective. Second, in spite of this tendency, probably all sentences of this kind could be ...
K. Kabakciev, 2000
10
Topics in Cognitive Linguistics
An imperfective state predication followed by an imperfectively marked activity, accomplishment or achievement will also mark simultaneity; an imperfective sequence of activities or achievements / accomplishments may mark locally ...
Brygida Rudzka, 1988

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Imperfectively [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/imperfectively>. Apr 2024 ».
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