Definition of vitally in English:
vitally
adverb ˈvʌɪt(ə)liˈvaɪdəli
1In a way that is absolutely necessary or essential.
they depend vitally on government subsidies
as submodifier the music plays a vitally important role
Example sentencesExamples
- He argued that the Bank's zero interest rate policy was precluding vitally required economic restructuring.
- But vitally, it as an unmistakably modern effort, possessed of a distinctive dystopian angst.
- A small and vitally fundamental point, for without an ability to draw, and all the looking it entails, an artist cannot be made.
- They are consulted on every issue that vitally affects the country.
- What is so enjoyable about this is seeing him come into his own, and make a vitally valid contribution to music.
2In an energetic or lively manner.
activity and busyness make me feel that I am vitally alive
Example sentencesExamples
- The president has to be as vitally engaged there as he is in Baghdad.
- From the first days of their courtship, his wife had been a woman vitally erotic, playfully taunting.
- A remarkable versifier, Dylan exploits the possibilities of poetic form more vitally and vigorously than ever.
- This wider cultural and historical perspective is important to Walker's novel because the form of knowledge that it offers is vitally liberating and empowering.
- Always vitally interested in the welfare of workers, she became business representative of the organization in October of 1962.