undoubtedly
English
Etymology
From Middle English undoutedly, equivalent to undoubted + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌnˈdaʊtɪdli/
- Hyphenation: un‧doubt‧ed‧ly
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Adverb
undoubtedly (comparative more undoubtedly, superlative most undoubtedly)
- Without doubt; definitely.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ayrsham Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
Translations
without doubt
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