Dictionary

admirably en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /ˈæd.mə.ɹə.bli/ (Australia, UK)
• /ˈæd.mɪɹ.ə.bli/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

Etymology tree English admirable Middle English -ly English -ly English admirably From admirable + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a way worthy of admiration.
   • ...yet more than all I had heard of it, now strongly informed me I was to expect that supreme pleasure which she had placed in the meeting of those parts so admirably fitted for each other. 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
   • I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing. 2002 February 18, Molly Ivins, “Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?”, in TIME, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2002:
   • He succeeded admirably in drawing fire away from the troop transports.
   • Near-synonym: laudably
   • Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.
2. To an admirable degree.
   • Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service. 1956 October, R. S. McNaught, “Locomotive Nicknames”, in Railway Magazine, pages 698-699:
   • They have made admirably great improvements in quality.

Forms

Relateds

admire · admiringly

Synonyms

laudably

Translations (26)

gl admirabelmente (to an admirable degree) · nl bewonderenswaardig (to an admirable degree) · fr admirablement (in an admirable manner) · ca admirablement (in an admirable manner) · it ammirevolmente (in an admirable manner) · ca admirablement (to an admirable degree) · cmn 极好地 (to an admirable degree) · nl bewonderenswaardig (in an admirable manner) · pt admiravelmente (in an admirable manner) · fr admirablement (to an admirable degree) · cmn 令人钦佩地 (in an admirable manner) · hy հիանալիորեն (in an admirable manner) · de bewundernswert (to an admirable degree) · nl wonderbaarlijk (to an admirable degree) · fi ihailtavan (to an admirable degree) · cmn 令人钦佩地 (to an admirable degree) · it ammirevolmente (to an admirable degree) · vi đáng ngưỡng mộ (to an admirable degree) · fi ihailtavasti (in an admirable manner) · hy հիանալիորեն (to an admirable degree) · es admirablemente (to an admirable degree) · ru превосхо́дно (to an admirable degree) · la admīrābiliter (in an admirable manner) · gl admirablemente (to an admirable degree) · pt admiravelmente (to an admirable degree) · cmn 极好地 (in an admirable manner)