vitally
/ˈvʌɪt(ə)li
/adverb
1In a way that is absolutely necessary or essential: they depend vitally on government subsidies [as submodifier]: the music plays a vitally important role...
- He argued that the Bank's zero interest rate policy was precluding vitally required economic restructuring.
- 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...
- 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.
- The president has to be as vitally engaged there as he is in Baghdad.