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admirably

UK/ˈæd.mə.ɹə.bli//ˈæd.mɪɹ.ə.bli/

admirably adverb: in a way worthy of admiration.

Adverb

admirably (comparative more admirably, superlative most admirably)

  1. In a way worthy of admiration.
    • Near-synonym: laudably
    • He succeeded admirably in drawing fire away from the troop transports.
    Synonyms:
    laudably
  2. To an admirable degree.
    • They have made admirably great improvements in quality.
    • Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.1956 October, R. S. McNaught, “Locomotive Nicknames”, in Railway Magazine, pages 698-699

admirably meaning in Urdu and Vietnamese

admirably in Urdu

عمدگی سے

admirably in Vietnamese

to an admirable degree
đáng ngưỡng mộ

Examples of admirably in a sentence

  • Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.
  • ...yet more than all I had heard of it, now strongly informed me I was to expect that supreme pleasure which she had placed in the meeting of those parts so admirably fitted for each other.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker]...
  • It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing.2002 February 18, Molly Ivins, “Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?”, in TIME, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2002:

Synonyms of admirably

Forms of admirably

comparativemore admirably
superlativemost admirably

Origin of admirably

From admirable + -ly.

Questions about admirably

What does admirably mean?
Admirably means in a way worthy of admiration.
What is admirably in Urdu?
Admirably in Urdu is عمدگی سے. See Admirably meaning in Urdu.
How do you use admirably in a sentence?
Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.
What part of speech is admirably?
Admirably is an adverb.
How do you pronounce admirably?
Admirably is pronounced /ˈæd.mə.ɹə.bli/ (UK).

Words near admirably in the dictionary

  1. admirable
  2. admirable grasshopper
  3. admirableness
  4. admirables
  5. admirablest
  6. admirably
  7. admirail
  8. admiral
  9. admiral of the fleet
  10. Admiral of the Red
  11. admiral of the Swiss Navy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: admirably (page history and authors); admirably (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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