minimal
She recommended minimally invasive surgery.
The area has changed only minimally over time.
Choose food that is minimally processed.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Small in number and quantity
beggarly
below
bupkis
certain
could count something on (the fingers of) one handidiom
count
low density
measly
mildness
mingy
minimal
remote
scantly
slenderly
slenderness
smallness
speak
strength
suggestion
thin

minimally | American Dictionary

minimally
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈmɪn·ə·mə·li/
slightly:
The factory was only minimally damaged by the fire.

minimally | Business English

minimally
adverb
uk /ˈmɪnɪməli/us
to a small degree:
We specialize in organic and minimally processed foods.

Examples of minimally

minimally
Although teachers minimally are asked to perform as practitioners, it is preferable that they be encouraged to assume other roles as well.
The first category comprised single phrase utterances, minimally containing a preposition and a noun.
Patients in "minimally conscious states" are awake but have only partial preservation of awareness and responsiveness.
Thus, an attempt to cover this subject in some 538 pages is, minimally, ambitious and daring.
Each conversation was divided into basic clauses, defined as utterances that contain maximally (but not minimally) one main verb.
Some of these species are uncommon or contribute minimally to overall biomass and consequently their competition for resources may be ecologically negligible.
An order domain consists of an ordered list of elements that (minimally) contain phonological and categorial information.
Where parties in the legislature are minimally disciplined, internal factions can often exercise their own blocking power over policy change.
In the specific case of reading, these include (minimally) the networks that support vision, attention, eye-movement control, and language.
He suggests that the ventral pathway, which is associated with object identification and shape recognition, is minimally activated during knapping.
All we need is a minimally circumscribed concept that will help us explain the law in particular.
As long as the system is minimally frustrated, this entropy is greater than zero.
A word-list was constructed for each language containing minimally contrastive forms illustrating the syllable structure differences of interest.
Minimally, it implies that geographic context, in the form of spatial proximity, will influence an individual's likelihood of participating.
The features appearing in node labels of the tree are minimally specified.
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