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Grammar : Adv

Spell : ahy-dee-uh-lee

Phonetic Transcription : aɪˈdi ə li

Definition of ideally

Origin : "in the best conceivable situation," 1840, from ideal + -ly (2). Earlier "in an archetype" (1640s); "in idea or imagination" (1590s).

As in perfectly : adv without flaw
As in beautifully : adv in an attractive or pleasing manner

Example sentences :

Sir Walter was ideally suited for the task which he set himself.
Extract from : « Hampstead and Marylebone » by Geraldine Edith Mitton

His own cabin at the moment seemed an ideally peaceful retreat.
Extract from : « They of the High Trails » by Hamlin Garland

He was about to do an ideally evil thing, to the accomplishment of an ideally evil end.
Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller

Why can't you get her back here and let her visualize the ideally beautiful?
Extract from : « The Ideal » by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

Every detail was as harmonious as an ideally conceived Christmas card.
Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland

I have believed it for twenty years, because it seemed so ideally plausible.
Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence

Government is ideally a means of aiding all the functions of every individual.
Extract from : « The Psychology of Nations » by G.E. Partridge

That way, we can tell just how much and in what way Martin deviates from what he should ideally be.
Extract from : « Anything You Can Do ... » by Gordon Randall Garrett

Ideally, education addresses all the facets of the human being.
Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

It was the daughter of the house, an ideally blonde and bonny German girl.
Extract from : « A Woman's Will » by Anne Warner

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