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irresolutely

irresolutely adverb: in an irresolute or wavering manner.

Adverb

irresolutely (comparative more irresolutely, superlative most irresolutely)

  1. In an irresolute or wavering manner.
    • [H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. […] And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms.1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 93
    Synonyms:
    shilly-shally

Synonyms of irresolutely

Forms of irresolutely

comparativemore irresolutely
superlativemost irresolutely

Origin of irresolutely

From irresolute + -ly.

Questions about irresolutely

What does irresolutely mean?
Irresolutely means in an irresolute or wavering manner.
What part of speech is irresolutely?
Irresolutely is an adverb.

Words near irresolutely in the dictionary

  1. irresolubility
  2. irresoluble
  3. irresolubleness
  4. irresolubly
  5. irresolute
  6. irresolutely
  7. irresoluteness
  8. irresolution
  9. irresolutions
  10. irresolvability
  11. irresolvable

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