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temporarily

adverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)ɪli//
  • United Kingdom//ˌtɛmp(ə)ˈrɛrɪli//
  • United States//ˌtɛmpəˈɹɛɹəli//

For a limited period of time; not permanently.

adverb

  1. 1

    For a limited period of time; not permanently.

    Necromancers were thought to have the power of restoring activity to the dead, either temporarily or permanently[.]

    The committee also decided that the remains of President Chiang will be entombed temporarily by Tzu Lake, at Tahsi township of Taoyuan County in northern Taiwan, and will be buried on the mainland after it is recovered.

    The New York Post also temporarily took down and then revised and republished an article about the Fox reporter’s exchange with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday.

Etymology

Etymology tree English temporary Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English temporarily From temporary + -ly.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).