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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ideally
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
locate
▪ It was ideally located, perfectly engineered and specifically oriented to serving the needs of airplane builders and users.
place
▪ The clearing banks were ideally placed.
▪ From here too visitors are ideally placed to discover the wealth of exclusive boutiques and designer names displayed all along the promenade.
situated
▪ The south side of the cut dips down into a beautiful hollow of vines, all but the lowest locations being ideally situated.
▪ All the University Accommodation is ideally situated for the City Centre.
▪ The Talyllyn had special events and the Fairbourne is ideally situated for beach weather.
▪ Overlooking lawns and sea. Ideally situated for Conference Centre, exhibitions halls and shops.
▪ The stationmaster's office turned out to be ideally situated overlooking the busy concourse.
▪ It is ideally situated along a charming stretch of canal, near to the Waterlooplein.
suit
▪ With its great lakes and long coast line, the continent was, it seemed, ideally suited to the flying boat.
▪ Researcher Robert Glover felt that Austin was ideally suited to launch a school-to-work effort.
▪ He loves the ground and is ideally suited by a testing two miles.
▪ We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.
▪ Missing too are some of the ski mountaineering classics which are ideally suited to Nordic touring gear.
▪ In short, he was ideally suited for long-distance sailing on an increasingly waterlogged bamboo raft.
▪ The Meltemi will be ideally suited for the Angelina.
▪ These skills need much greater emphasis in schools, and work-based learning is ideally suited to acquiring them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be well/ideally etc placed
▪ But the island that in the prohibition years after 1920 profitably ran the rum trade is well placed for bootlegging cocaine.
▪ By the end of the 32/33 season, the club was well placed to progress from friendlies to Junior League soccer.
▪ Development agencies are well placed to make this point with the authority of people trying to get a job done.
▪ He was well placed to comment.
▪ In short, I knew a lot of management educators and developers and was well placed to include them in my study.
▪ Professional associations would seem to be well placed in terms of expertise and disinterest to carry out this kind of selection.
▪ The clearing banks were ideally placed.
▪ These factors, he argues, created a situation where many clearing banks were well placed to expand.
be well/ideally/perfectly positioned
best/well/ideally/perfectly etc suited to/for sth
▪ Boar chops are best suited to grilling or sauteing.
▪ If I were a free agent, those are the places I would go, a place best suited for my needs.
▪ It is not however so well suited to an intensive, detailed study of spoken language.
▪ Nevertheless, it is an early maturing variety well suited to the long ripening period of a northern wine region.
▪ Secondly, the adversary nature of the adjudicative process may not be well suited to this area.
▪ The farmer's wife was well suited to tackling this considerable undertaking.
▪ Use the systems best suited to their talent, both offensively and defensively.
▪ We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Ideally, we'd like to provide regular training for everyone.
Ideally, we should be saving money every month.
▪ In order to win, you must throw your opponent, ideally onto his back.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, ideally, the general lighting scheme should be similar in both parts of the room.
▪ Details, too, were not ideally arranged.
▪ It was ideally located, perfectly engineered and specifically oriented to serving the needs of airplane builders and users.
▪ It was ideally placed for commerce.
▪ Researcher Robert Glover felt that Austin was ideally suited to launch a school-to-work effort.
▪ This ideally matches the requirements of the servos and ensures a smooth and rapid response.
▪ Which was just as well, as Jim was not ideally cut out to be a farmer!
▪ You should, ideally, have a degree in engineering or science.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ideally

Ideally \I*de"al*ly\, adv. In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ideally

"in the best conceivable situation," 1840, from ideal + -ly (2). Earlier "in an archetype" (1640s); "in idea or imagination" (1590s).

Wiktionary
ideally

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

WordNet
ideally

adv. in an ideal manner; "ideally, this will remove all problems"

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.