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indistinguishably en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English indistinguishable Middle English -ly English -ly English indistinguishably From indistinguishable + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
    • Mrs. Seal wandered about with newspaper cuttings, which seemed to her either "quite splendid" or "really too bad for words." She used to paste these into books, or send them to her friends, having first drawn a broad bar in blue pencil down the margin, a proceeding which signified equally and indistinguishably the depths of her reprobation or the heights of her approval. 1919 October 20, Virginia Woolf, chapter VI, in Night and Day, London: Duckworth and Company […], →OCLC, page 81:
  2. (archaic) Indiscriminately.

Forms

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more indistinguishably Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most indistinguishably Degree=Sup lexicographic