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answerably

answerably adverb: in suitable proportion; proportionately.

Adverb

answerably (comparative more answerably, superlative most answerably)

  1. In suitable proportion; proportionately.
  2. In a corresponding manner; correspondingly.
    • Many of the ships, as they could see by the clear moonshine, had weighed anchor, and, profiting by the calm sky, proceeded for more distant parts; answerably to this, the rude alehouses along the beach (although in defiance of the curfew law, they still shone with fire and candle) were no longer...1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

Forms of answerably

comparativemore answerably
superlativemost answerably

Origin of answerably

From answerable + -ly.

Questions about answerably

What does answerably mean?
Answerably means in suitable proportion; proportionately.
What part of speech is answerably?
Answerably is an adverb.

Words near answerably in the dictionary

  1. answer'd
  2. answerabilities
  3. answerability
  4. answerable
  5. answerableness
  6. answerably
  7. answerback
  8. answerbacks
  9. answerde
  10. answere
  11. answered

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