similarly
/ˈsɪm.əli/UK/ˈsɪm.ə.lə.li/
similarly adverb: in a like style or manner.
Adverb
similarly (comparative more similarly, superlative most similarly)
- In a like style or manner.
- The sisters dressed similarly.
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
- Synonyms:
- likewise
- Used to link similar items.
similarly meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
similarly in Hindi
- इसी तरह
similarly in Tamil
- ஒப்பந்தம், அப்படிப்போல், அதே போல, அவ்விதமே
similarly in Bengali
- similarly
- একইভাবে êkibhabe
similarly in Telugu
- అదేవిధంగా
More languagesFewer languages
- similarly in Malayalam
- പോലെ, അതുപോലെ, അപ്രകാരം, അമ്മാറ്
- similarly in Kannada
- ಅದೇ ರೀತಿ
- similarly in Punjabi
- ਇਸੇ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ
- similarly in Gujarati
- તેવી જ રીતે
Examples of similarly in a sentence
- The supersize model displayed the latest summer shorts fashion, tactfully representing similarly overweight teenagers.
- Similarly, there is a category whose objects are groups and whose arrows are the homomorphisms from one group to another.
- Chlortalidone is a thiazidelike diuretic: it acts similarly to the thiazides but does not contain the benzothiadiazine molecular structure.
Synonyms of similarly
Antonyms
Forms of similarly
| comparative | more similarly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most similarly |
Origin of similarly
From similar + -ly.
Questions about similarly
- What does similarly mean?
- Similarly means in a like style or manner.
- What is similarly in Hindi?
- Similarly in Hindi is इसी तरह. See Similarly meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is similarly?
- Similarly is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce similarly?
- Similarly is pronounced /ˈsɪm.ə.lə.li/ (UK).
Words near similarly in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: similarly (page history and authors); similarly (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); similarly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); একইভাবে (Bengali) (page history and authors); similarly (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); similarly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); similarly (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); similarly (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); similarly (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-similarly.ogg.
Cite this entry: “similarly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/similarly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.