finally

Adverb

1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately.
   • The contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.

   Synonyms: eventually in the end

   Antonyms: initially

2. At bottom; ultimately; when all is considered.
   • In a world in which "like singing,/ the next day's shriek for ease rises," in a world whose "survivors" are "capable of any cry, never done/ clasping in the city's shaken places," it is perhaps not surprising to find a...
   • Cyberneticism is, finally, a refined form of scientism, and therefore it is also more dangerous. This form of scientism is not based on linear causality, as mechanistic thought is; rather, it is based on circular...
3. To finish (with); lastly (in the present).
   • Finally, I washed my dog.
   • Finally, I'd like to thanks all the people who helped to make it this far.
   • I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me...

   Synonyms: at last at length endly finally last lastly ultimately

4. Definitively, comprehensively.
   • The question of his long-term success has now been finally settled.

   Synonyms: completely thoroughly totally absolutely all-out tout à fait all the way blind altogether at large at length cap-a-pie categorically detailly downright entirely exhaustively finally first and last flat-out flat out from aardvark to zymurgy from A to Z from head to toe