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determinately

determinately adverb: in a way that is determinate.

Adverb

determinately (comparative more determinately, superlative most determinately)

  1. In a way that is determinate
    • If ‘aardvark lover’ has that syntactic structure, then it determinately means “lover of aardvarks.2007 August 15, Wayne A. Davis, “Replies to Green, Szabó, Jeshion, and Siebel”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 3, →DOI

Forms of determinately

comparativemore determinately
superlativemost determinately

Origin of determinately

From determinate + -ly.

Questions about determinately

What does determinately mean?
Determinately means in a way that is determinate.
What part of speech is determinately?
Determinately is an adverb.

Words near determinately in the dictionary

  1. determinate
  2. determinate state
  3. determinate verb
  4. determinate verbs
  5. determinated
  6. determinately
  7. determinateness
  8. determinatenesses
  9. determinates
  10. determinating
  11. determination

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