It's the word of the day for January 7th.
Today's word is eminently, spelled E-M-I-N-E-N-T-L-Y.
Eminently is an adverb.
It's used as a synonym of very and means to a high degree.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Gazette of Montreal.
This was jazz of the highest order,
challenging yet accessible, eminently entertaining and arrestingly beautiful.
Goosebumps were felt.
When British physician Tobias Venner wrote in 1620 of houses somewhat eminently situated,
he meant that the houses were located at an elevated site.
They were literally in a high place.
That use has since slipped into obsolescence, as has the words used to mean conspicuously,
a sense that reflects its Latin root, eminere, which means to stick out or to protrude.
All three meanings date to the 17th century,
but today's figurative sense of notably or very is the only one now regularly encountered.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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