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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vitally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
important
▪ The Amazonian rainforests make up one third of all rainforests and are vitally important in terms of biological diversity.
▪ Encryption is vitally important to on-line commerce.
▪ Furthermore, the job description is also vitally important so that candidates then know what is required.
▪ You are important to me, and firsthand inquiry informs me that you are vitally important to your flock.
▪ Histone is vitally important for survival.
▪ The designation of these special areas is a vitally important way of protecting our heritage.
▪ This concept underlies a technique for compressing video which has become vitally important in multimedia.
▪ Limitations on virement ensure that the annual budgetary cycle becomes vitally important.
necessary
▪ But given those provisos a massive transfer of cash from rich to poor is still vitally necessary.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Terrorism is an issue that vitally affects the security of the United States.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hence it is vitally important that the recruitment of elites into parties or primary races should be competitive and open.
▪ It is vitally important to get it right.
▪ Most people probably don't realise but, with this kind of emergency treatment, time is vitally important.
▪ Power relationships and relationships within informal networks are vitally important in all child care work.
▪ Surely a treaty vitally affecting the United Kingdom electorate's future democracy must be brought before Parliament before negotiations are concluded.
▪ We still have to wait months for payment of vitally important benefits such as the attendance allowance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vitally

Vitally \Vi"tal*ly\, adv. In a vital manner.

Wiktionary
vitally

adv. 1 In a manner that imparts vitality 2 To an extent that is vital; indispensably

WordNet
vitally

adv. to a vital degree; "this is vitally important"

Usage examples of "vitally".

She does not gratuitously report annoying matters unless she feels they would affect me vitally.

Some of them proved to be very intelligent - Pamela Dare, Potter, Tich Jackson, Larry Seales, Fernman - while others exhibited a native intelligence somewhat removed from academic pursuits, yet vitally necessary in the unrelenting struggle for survival with which they were already familiar.

Nagoya and hundreds of casualties, and afterwards there began a frantic dumping of accumulated goods abroad, to pay not merely for munitions but for such now vitally essential imports as Australian meat and Canadian and American corn.

Earnest prayerful consultation intensify teaching campaign already energetically initiated India Burma vitally required.

In tabulated form, The Shadow inscribed four names: Shelburne Thorne Towson Whilton These were the four most vitally concerned.

Napa Valley Chenin Blanc quickly, vitally aware of the way Joel was gliding around her living room, examining the surroundings.

The Washington act not only differs vitally from the Utah and New Mexico acts, but the Nebraska act differs vitally from both.

When it was over - as abruptly as it had begun - he continued to sit on the lavatory lid while he struggled to cope with his horrified realisation of how vitally justified his presence in Guernsey had now become.

By the kindness of Lord Godalming, I am empowered to read her letters and papers, for I am deeply concerned about certain matters vitally important.

If there are as many as you suggest engaged in minesweeping duties, then they are sweeping to some very exact, and vitally important, purpose.

I am and tell him to go to the nearest telephone, that it is vitally important that I communicate with him at the earliest practicable moment.

This hot bath is rather strenuous treatment, but it is effective, if one is strong vitally, for rapidly purifying the blood and eliminating the poisons in the body in any toxemic condition.

These farmers on the other hand were beginning to be very much interested in a number of economic reforms which would vitally affect their welfare, such as the reduction and readjustment of the burden of taxation, the control of corporations in the interests of the people, the reduction and regulation of the cost of transporation, and an increase in the currency supply.

Were it only the Self of nature and not also of nation (culture and morality), then it would be a perfectly regressive, dualistic, and amoralist stance, glorifying merely an egocentric joy in finding oneself vitally reflected in the biosphere (and the rain whispers in its ear, I am here for you).

Of course, she was supposed to be working on the vitally important performance appraisals, she reminded herself.