Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a qualitative manner; with reference to quality; in quality.

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  • adverb in a qualitative manner
  • adverb with respect to quality rather than quantity

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a qualitative manner

Etymologies

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qualitative +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • However Roger then asks: "I wonder what it might take to cause me to boycott an author, or to use an assessment of his or her life in qualitatively judging his or her work."

    "What do YOU do when your favorite author turns out to be a puppy-kicker?" Roger Sutton 2009

  • First, I don't think it takes a monster to do monstrous things -- Anne Sexton was a deeply disturbed woman, not a monster -- but I wonder what it might take to cause me to boycott an author, or to use an assessment of his or her life in qualitatively judging his or her work.

    "What do YOU do when your favorite author turns out to be a puppy-kicker?" Roger Sutton 2009

  • The labour which creates Use-Value, and counts qualitatively is Work, as distinguished from Labour; that which creates Value and count quantitatively is Labour as distinguished from Work.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010

  • First, I don't think it takes a monster to do monstrous things -- Anne Sexton was a deeply disturbed woman, not a monster -- but I wonder what it might take to cause me to boycott an author, or to use an assessment of his or her life in qualitatively judging his or her work.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Roger Sutton 2009

  • The labour which creates Use-Value, and counts qualitatively is Work, as distinguished from Labour; that which creates Value and count quantitatively is Labour as distinguished from Work.

    skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 2 Post 5 skzbrust 2010

  • As a result, we can no longer rely upon our historic, almost taken-for-granted ability to remain qualitatively ahead of a numerically superior opponent.

    NATO: The Continuing Challenge 1980

  • Many of the remarkable properties of superconductors can be understood qualitatively from the structure of this correlated many-electron state.

    Press Release: The 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics 1972

  • Nussbaum, for instance: certain qualitatively similar emotional states are distinguishable only by their cognitive content) that’s probably a further point in favor of breaking out the middle category.

    Happy Happy Happy 2005

  • The review also reports that same-sex behaviors are not the same across species, and that researchers may be calling qualitatively different phenomena by the same name.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • He said it was critical to enhance capacity building, with recently started programmes targeting local government officials aimed at "qualitatively" improving service delivery.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

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