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ideally
/aɪˈdi.ə.li/
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What does ideally mean?
adverb
- In an ideal way; perfectly.
- Given ideal circumstances; preferably.
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He loved her dearly, though perhaps rather ideally and fancifully than with the impassioned thoroughness of her feeling for him.
Shadows projected, they often were, without his knowing it, by an undue apprehension that things after all might not go so ideally well with Roderick.
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Friendship ideally expects no material benefits, but it lives on the spiritual benefit of sympathy and expressed interest and the flattery of a taste in common.