Adjective: online
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more online |
| Superlative | most online |
Sample Sentences
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Is this modem online?
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In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. [2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:]
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The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. [2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian:]
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I prefer to read online newspapers.
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I'll be online tonight, so I'll be able to reply to your email.
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Press the F1 key to access the online help.
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The program comes with an online manual, supplied on compact disc.
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The power is online.
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Once this factory comes online, it will double car production in our country!
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terminally online
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To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood. [2019, A.O. Scott, “'The Image Book' Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies”, in The New York Times:]
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“If we were doing a family vlog inside the house, I would not want my feet in the video. At all.” He would wear socks. He is very online. He sees the conversations. [2025 April 27, Lisa Miller, Maggie Shannon, “When a Child’s Life Becomes the Family Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
Adjectives inflected like online
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1950, from on + line.
Verbs referencing "online"
Dutch Adjectives
online, Italian Adjectives
online, Spanish Adjectives
en línea, French Adjectives
en ligne.