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visually

adverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈvɪzju.əli//
  • //ˈvɪʒu.əli//
  • //ˈvɪʒəli//

By means of sight.

adverb

  1. 1

    By means of sight.

    The radar's detection was confirmed visually, because seeing is believing.

    He explained that engineers had been able to examine the bridge visually, and had started surveying likely sites for access roads and where to place the heavyweight crawler crane. NR was also ordering the aggregates needed for the access roads.

Etymology

Etymology tree English visual 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 visually From visual + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more visually
superlative
most visually
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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).