hermetically

[ hur-met-ik-lee ]

adverb

1. so as to be airtight:

   hermetically sealed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hermetically¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; hermetic + -ally

Example Sentences

Most buildings—homes and offices alike—are so hermetically sealed that they require air conditioning, making them impossible to cool without it.

From Time

On the internet, you could create a hermetically sealed bubble of people just like you.

From Time

A grandmother, desperate to protect her family from a poisonous, airborne disease, locks everyone up in a hermetically-sealed flat.

From Time

We have hermetically sealed our choices in a capsule under the supervision of someone whose relative works for Pricewaterhouse.

From Washington Post

The entire production process happens in a hermetically sealed system, with products from each stage transported to the next via a network of transparent plastic tubing.

From Time

For JPMorgan Chase, the Bernie Madoff stench can no longer be hermetically sealed.

From The Daily Beast

Then quite suddenly, the hermetically sealed bubble around Castro was punctured.

From The Daily Beast

The debates certainly would never have been this hermetically sealed and antiseptic.

From The Daily Beast

These graves were once all hermetically sealed by slabs of marble, or tiles of terra cotta.

From Project Gutenberg

The curtains were hermetically closed, and for a moment the external world did not exist for us.

From Project Gutenberg

The pictures thus hermetically sealed are indestructible so long as the glass is not fractured.

From Project Gutenberg

It was discovered by chance in 1858, having been until then hermetically sealed by a mass of limestone breccia.

From Project Gutenberg

Th' shelf shud thin be nailed to th' wall iliven feet fr'm th' flure an' hermetically sealed.

From Project Gutenberg