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fondly

Syllables: fond·ly/ˈfɒndli/US/ˈfɑndli/

fondly adverb: in a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly.

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Adverb

fondly (comparative more fondly, superlative most fondly)

  1. In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly.
    • He looked fondly at the pictures of his high-school friends.
  2. (dated) Foolishly.
    • "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" / I fondly ask...1673, John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent ('On His Blindness')
    • […] she fondly believes that ten millions of the free people of the Union will allow her and her seceding brethren to open and shut the portals of this mighty region at their pleasure.1861, The Living Age

fondly meaning in Bengali

fondly in Bengali

স্নেহভরে, মমতার সাথে, আদর করে, বোকামির সাথে

Examples of fondly in a sentence

  • All the septuagenarians remembered their seventieths fondly.
  • He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening of presents.
  • She fondly reminisced the two years before marriage when Frank served in the US Army.

All 19 example sentences with fondly

Forms of fondly

comparativemore fondly
superlativemost fondly

Origin of fondly

From Middle English fondly, fondely, fonnedli, equivalent to fond + -ly.

Questions about fondly

What does fondly mean?
Fondly means in a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly.
What is fondly in Bengali?
Fondly in Bengali is স্নেহভরে, মমতার সাথে, আদর করে. See Fondly meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is fondly?
Fondly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce fondly?
Fondly is pronounced /ˈfɑndli/ (US).

Words near fondly in the dictionary

  1. fondleslabs
  2. fondlesome
  3. fondling
  4. fondlingly
  5. fondlings
  6. fondly
  7. fondnes
  8. fondneses
  9. fondness
  10. fondnesses
  11. fondom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fondly (page history and authors); fondly (Bengali 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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