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View synonyms for socially

socially

[ soh-shuh-lee ]

adverb

  1. in the friendly company of others; in a genial or gregarious manner:

    We met through mutual friends who gather socially several times a month.

  2. in a manner that relates to human society and its configuration as a community:

    Her art strives to be both beautifully evocative and socially responsible.

  3. in a manner that relates to the division of human society into classes according to status:

    Socially and economically, these children are repressed by disadvantages we cannot imagine.

  4. with attention or regard to rules about behavior:

    In my day, carousing on a Sunday was socially unacceptable.



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Other Words From

  • non·so·cial·ly adverb
  • un·so·cial·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of socially1

First recorded in 1610–30; social ( def ) + -ly ( def )

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Example Sentences

In general, there’s a sense of separation between hard-of-hearing people and others, and our socially distanced world only makes communication harder.

Even the young children were adhering to the mask requirements, and Riddlesprigger said they were paying attention to the visual reminders posted around campus to socially distance.

They are socially conscious, focused on increased plant consumption, and lead active lives.

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About a year ago, you were sipping beer from the Super Bowl trophy at the Chiefs’ very socially undistant victory parade.

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Like, their deaths and the experience of their death gets lost socially.

Someone who regularly rebels against the most socially sanctioned night of the year?

Anger often manifests in withholders as another self-destructive but more socially acceptable feeling or behavior, like anxiety.

It is freedom, and accountable both legally and socially to the free choices of others around them.

It helps that he is the opposite of Christopher, he says: “socially good and mathematically disabled.”

Being mad about growing up an embittered, socially isolated nerd.

Sounds rotten, but that's their style; and you've been through the mill at home enough to know what it is to be knifed socially.

The plantation owners also became the influential individuals within the colony—politically, economically and socially.

The very first obligation, voluntarily accepted by personally or socially discharging it, binds additionally to it.

I found a great interest manifested in my premire, and socially everything was done to make me happy.

Only by an assiduous devotion to the contents of the daily newspapers in their reports of the doings of the socially elect.

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