safeliest
safeliest is the superlative form of safely.
Meaning of safely
Adverb
safely (comparative more safely or (rare) safelier, superlative most safely or (rare) safeliest)
- In a safe manner; without risk; using caution above all else.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what...1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii
- In a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting.
- Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cassock stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
Questions about safeliest
- What is safeliest the superlative form of?
- Safeliest is the superlative form of safely.
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