respectfully
Syllables: re·spect·ful·ly/ɹɪˈspɛkt.fə.li/
respectfully adverb: in a respectful manner.
Adverb
respectfully (comparative more respectfully, superlative most respectfully)
- In a respectful manner.
- York got down and said very respectfully, "I beg your pardon, my lady, but these horses have not been reined up for three years, and my lord said it would be safer to bring them to it by degrees; but if your ladyship pleases, I can take them up a little more."[1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, pages 104–105
- There is something wonderful and sad about Ohio around Christmastime — maybe the reasons are the licentious, Yukon sleddog cold and the buildings on the main streets of college towns standing respectfully buttressed with graceful wings...1968, Melvin Van Peebles, A bear for the FBI, page 131
- Antonyms:
- disrespectfully
respectfully meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
respectfully in Hindi
- in a respectful manner
- सम्मानपूर्वक sammānpūrvak, सविनय savinay
respectfully in Tamil
- முழு மதிப்பு, மரியாதையுடன்
respectfully in Marathi
- आदरपूर्वक
respectfully in Bengali
- সম্মানের সাথে
More languagesFewer languages
- respectfully in Telugu
- గౌరవప్రదంగా
- respectfully in Malayalam
- സാദരം sādaraṁ, ആദരവോടെ ādaravōṭe
- respectfully in Kannada
- ಗೌರವಯುತವಾಗಿ
- respectfully in Gujarati
- આદરપૂર્વક, સન્માનપૂર્વક
Examples of respectfully in a sentence
- Greeley's specialty is robust, respectfully kinkless sex bathed in a rosy glow of soon-to-be-blessed romantic love.1989, Kirkus Reviews, volume 57, numbers 7-13, page 859:
- “I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out.”2022 March 14, Joe Coscarelli, quoting Dolly Parton, “Dolly Parton Bows Out of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nomination”, in The New York Times...
Antonyms of respectfully
Forms of respectfully
| comparative | more respectfully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most respectfully |
Origin of respectfully
From respectful + -ly.
Questions about respectfully
- What does respectfully mean?
- Respectfully means in a respectful manner.
- What is respectfully in Hindi?
- Respectfully in Hindi is सम्मानपूर्वक (sammānpūrvak), सविनय (savinay). See Respectfully meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use respectfully in a sentence?
- Greeley's specialty is robust, respectfully kinkless sex bathed in a rosy glow of soon-to-be-blessed romantic love.
- What part of speech is respectfully?
- Respectfully is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce respectfully?
- Respectfully is pronounced /ɹɪˈspɛkt.fə.li/.
Words near respectfully in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: respectfully (page history and authors); respectfully (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); respectfully (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); respectfully (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); respectfully (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); respectfully (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); respectfully (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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