| 词汇 | vestigially |
| 释义 | vestigially adverb uk /vesˈtɪdʒ.i.ə.li/ us /vesˈtɪdʒ.i.ə.li/ in a way that has almost disappeared, or that is a small remaining part of something: He failed to show the battlefield bravery that is vestigially expected of men. The British Empire now exists only vestigially. See vestigial The emotional connection of his best work was only vestigially evident. The practice persisted until at least 1400, and vestigially for much longer still. The two companies are only vestigially related these days. Of little or less importance be in/under someone's shadowidiom be neither here nor thereidiom big deal biggie derisory marginal meaningless meaninglessly meaninglessness mere picayune picture piddling piddly piffling unrevolutionary unserious unseriousness venial vestigial Examples of vestigiallyvestigially No responsible person wants to say a word which will, even vestigially, bring racial conflict nearer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nouns have three grammatical numbers: singular, dual (vestigially) and plural. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the 19th century, perfection survived only vestigially as a general expression of approval. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It maintains several distinct cases: the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and (vestigially) instrumental. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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