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Answer for the clue "In the best of all possible worlds ", 7 letters:
ideally

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Word definitions for ideally in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 In an ideal way; perfectly. (from 18th c.) 2 Given ideal circumstances; preferably. (from 19th c.)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES conveniently/ideally/beautifully etc situated ▪ The hotel is ideally situated near the seafront. ideally qualified ▪ His former wife is ideally qualified to comment on his character. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"in the best conceivable situation," 1840, from ideal + -ly (2). Earlier "in an archetype" (1640s); "in idea or imagination" (1590s).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ideally \I*de"al*ly\, adv. In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.

Usage examples of ideally.

Take a fish or lizard, ideally suited to her environment, with just the right internal chemistry, agility, camouflagewhatever it takes to be healthy, fecund, and successful in her world.

The mistress of the house that Masha has entered as a bride represents the matriarchal or patriarchal order, or a way of life within which, at least ideally, there is no conflict between youth and age, love and marriage, innocence and happiness.

Ideally, we would also deploy a light or air mobile division to western Iraq to try to prevent Saddam from launching Scuds at Israel and to pressure him from the west.

From which position she was ideally placed to see Rollo race from the trees in a long, low streak and launch himself in an arching parabola from the top of the bank.

Ideally, a revised sanctions regime would be mandated by the Security Council itself because multilateral sanctions are always more effective than unilateral sanctions, and sanctions decreed by the United Nations tend to be the most effective of all.

Messire Den Harkeil feel entitled to ignore both Planir and the Demoiselle Tor Priminale saying a ship needs a mage or an adept or ideally both?

Ideally, he should get down to the air recyclers and break a sealed dish open inside the vents to the city domes, but even if he released the WKV here in the Human sections while the Dedelphi roamed in pressure suits, there was still a good chance that one virus would be able to take advantage of one mistake, and there would be nothing they could do.

By nature a symbolist, if not a sacramentalist, he found in such studies a task for which he was almost ideally fitted by temperament, training, and genius.

Ideally the largest creatures should be the smartest, but in fact these had been dinosaurs and whales and other relatively unbright forms.

A healthy newborn baby, crying vigorously and moving all limbs, would ideally have an apgar score of eight to ten.

But as we cannot rightly censure the statesmen of 1820 for not insisting on emancipation, for which public opinion was not yet prepared, so it would be unhistorical and unreasonable to blame the Diet of Augsburg for not granting the complete toleration which we now see was bound to come and was ideally the right thing.

Drawing on his Confucian tradition, he sought to portray in nature the kind of harmony and overall agreement of parts that ideally ought to prevail in human society.

Ideally all women of Chatterford who have monthly courses would admit men every day their courses are not flowing.

Ideally, a dyehouse had both a well with a pump and a system of pipes and troughs, and a nearby river.

A few immense ferns, ideally suited to the frequent coastal fogs, overgrew the path, and Chrissie shivered as she pushed through them, for she felt as if scores of small hands were grabbing at her.