0 in name or thought but not in fact, or not as things really are:
The province is nominally independent.
While nominally a film student, Barnett had no aspirations of a career behind the camera.
1 according to what something or someone is said to be, although they are not actually that thing:
He remains nominally in charge, but because he has no access to the factory he has almost nothing to do.
The charity was, at least nominally, supervised by the government.
2 used when talking about prices or rates that are correct at the present time but do not show the effect of inflation:
Although 75 per cent of Swedes are nominally members of the church, only 2 per cent attend regularly.
She is nominally the group's guitarist, though she only learnt the instrument last February.
In a nominally Christian country, the sanctity of human life has been brutally compromised.
In the wider context of the decade this was a disturbing threat to a nominally ordered society.
Despite their waning interest in genuine political reform, however, donors have continued to insist on nominally democratic systems.
Nominally a city from 1540, possessing its own judicial sessions from 1618, it nevertheless lacked proper corporate government throughout this period.
Individuals or families could actually or nominally hold estates and exercise fiscal and administrative control over them.
In all experiments intercropping treatment plots (nominally 2r10 m) were replicated in four randomized blocks.
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