Word.ws English Dictionary

bonafidely

bonafidely adverb: in a bona fide manner; genuinely; in good faith.

Adverb

bonafidely (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard) In a bona fide manner; genuinely; in good faith.
    • Hence, a voucher plan which permits the private schools to exclude children not of the faith and to admit only children belonging to the faith, even if this is done bonafidely, without any intention to encourage racial segregation, it seems to me that the effect of such a pattern,[…]1971, United States Committee on Education and Labor, quoting Leo Pfeffer, Economic Opportunity Amendments of 1971 […] , page 1421
    Synonyms:
    bona fide

Synonyms of bonafidely

Origin of bonafidely

From bona fide + -ly.

Questions about bonafidely

What does bonafidely mean?
Bonafidely means in a bona fide manner; genuinely; in good faith.
What part of speech is bonafidely?
Bonafidely is an adverb.

Words near bonafidely in the dictionary

  1. bonacons
  2. Bonadelle Ranchos-Madera Ranchos
  3. Bonafede
  4. Bonafedes
  5. bonafide
  6. bonafidely
  7. bonafied
  8. bonafy
  9. bonaght
  10. bonaghts
  11. bonair

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bonafidely (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bonafidely.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bonafidely. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.