"vanishingly" meaning in English

See vanishingly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Etymology: From vanishing + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|vanishing|ly}} vanishing + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} vanishingly (not comparable)
  1. So as to vanish, or appear to vanish; especially, very small or rare. Tags: not-comparable Translations (very small, very rare): verschwindend (German)
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "vanishing",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "vanishing + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From vanishing + -ly.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "vanishingly (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with collocations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with collocations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "vanishingly rare",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "a vanishingly small object on the horizon",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Iain M. Banks, Excession",
          "text": "When they weren't running ships, meddling with alien civilisations or planning the future course of the Culture itself, the Minds existed in those fantastic virtual realities, sojourning beyondward into the multi-dimensioned geographies of their unleashed imaginations, vanishingly far away from the single limited point that was reality.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ",
          "text": "[Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "So as to vanish, or appear to vanish; especially, very small or rare."
      ],
      "id": "en-vanishingly-en-adv-s0iHd8uu",
      "links": [
        [
          "vanish",
          "vanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "very small, very rare",
          "word": "verschwindend"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vanishingly"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "vanishing",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "vanishing + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From vanishing + -ly.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "vanishingly (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ly",
        "English terms with collocations",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncomparable adverbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Terms with German translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "vanishingly rare",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "a vanishingly small object on the horizon",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Iain M. Banks, Excession",
          "text": "When they weren't running ships, meddling with alien civilisations or planning the future course of the Culture itself, the Minds existed in those fantastic virtual realities, sojourning beyondward into the multi-dimensioned geographies of their unleashed imaginations, vanishingly far away from the single limited point that was reality.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ",
          "text": "[Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "So as to vanish, or appear to vanish; especially, very small or rare."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vanish",
          "vanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "very small, very rare",
      "word": "verschwindend"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vanishingly"
}

Download raw JSONL data for vanishingly meaning in English (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.