From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmo‧men‧tar‧i‧ly/ˈməʊməntərəli$ˌmoʊmənˈterəli/●○○adverb1for a very short timeSYNbrieflyShe was momentarily lost for words.Jimmy paused momentarily.2American Englishvery soonMr Johnson will be with you mom...
1 :for a moment. 2 archaic : instantly. 3 : at any moment : in a moment. Is momentarily a real word? The original meaning of the adverb momentarily was"lasting for brief time": "She was daydreaming and momentarily lost her train of thought." Today, the word is frequently used to m...
Weekley notes as "curious" that Germanic uses a word essentially meaning "body" for the adverbial formation, while Romanic uses one meaning "mind" (as in Frenchconstammentfrom Latinconstanti mente). The modern English form emerged in late Middle English, probably from influence of Old Norse-...
Definition of momentarily adverb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
EnglishThe acquisition of foreign language (FL) vocabulary involves two aspects: (1) learning to recognize a word's meaning, and (2) becoming able to retrieve or produce the word's form in speech production. The second aspect usually takes more time and practice to be developed. While ...