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inconˈsiderably, adv.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
1. To an inconsiderable, insignificant, or trifling extent; slightly, very little.
1727Bailey vol. II, Inconsiderably, meanly, etc. 1753Costard in Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 483 His number..differs inconsiderably from what they, most probably, made it. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 325 Those islands..being but inconsiderably elevated above the surface of the water.
†2. Thoughtlessly, carelessly, inconsiderately. Obs. rare.
a1646J. Gregory Terrest. Globe in Posthuma (1650) 266 [It] was thwartly in it self, and, in the proof, inconsiderably don. |