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inwardly

/ˈɪnwədli/US/ˈɪnwɚdli/

inwardly adverb: in an inward manner; to or toward the inside or to oneself.

Adverb

inwardly (not comparable)

  1. In an inward manner; to or toward the inside or to oneself.
    • Jacob groaned inwardly when he was called on to answer the question.
    Synonyms:
    inly
  2. (obsolete) Completely, fully.
    • whanne Percyual vnderstode that she was his veray syster / he was inwardly glad and sayd / faire syster I shalle entre therin / For yf I be a mys creature or an vntrue knyghte there shalle I perysshe1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI

inwardly meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

inwardly in Urdu

اندر سے

inwardly in Malayalam

അകത്തോട്ട്, ഉള്ളിലായി, മനസ്സിൽ, കേന്ദ്രത്തിലേക്ക്

Examples of inwardly in a sentence

  • If it is a useful action compliment yourself and smile inwardly.
  • Inwardly, Seven smiled, glad that the predictably irritable and impatient engineer had remerged from her cocoon.
  • Because she despised inwardly the coarsely working nature of the mistress.

All 12 example sentences with inwardly

Synonyms of inwardly

Origin of inwardly

From inward + -ly.

Questions about inwardly

What does inwardly mean?
Inwardly means in an inward manner; to or toward the inside or to oneself.
What is inwardly in Urdu?
Inwardly in Urdu is اندر سے. See Inwardly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is inwardly?
Inwardly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce inwardly?
Inwardly is pronounced /ˈɪnwədli/ (UK).

Words near inwardly in the dictionary

  1. inward-looking
  2. inward-lookingness
  3. inwardest
  4. inwardlooking
  5. inwardlookingness
  6. inwardly
  7. inwardmost
  8. inwardness
  9. inwardnesses
  10. inwards
  11. inwash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inwardly (page history and authors); inwardly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inwardly (Malayalam 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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