Eventually
WordNet
adverb
(1) Within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time
"He will understand eventually"
"He longed for the flowers that were yet to show themselves"
"Sooner or later you will have to face the facts"
"In time they came to accept the harsh reality"
(2) After a long period of time or an especially long delay
"At length they arrived"
WiktionaryText
Adverb
- In the end.
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage,
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage,
- (of a sequence) for some tail
Trivia
The following words are false friends, and do not mean "eventually"
- Dutch: eventueel
- French: éventuellement
- German: eventuell
- Interlingua: eventualmente
- Italian: eventualmente
- Norwegian: eventuelt
- Polish: ewentualnie
- Portuguese: eventualmente
- Spanish: eventualmente
- Swedish: eventuellt