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reliably en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English rely Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English reliable Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English reliably From reliable + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a reliable manner.
    • Genuine cowards follow the wicked and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.
    • Above all, rail needs to be boring. By that, I mean that it must run its timetable reliably, day-in and day-out. Punctuality and reliability remain the bedrock of a successful railway. 2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more reliably Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most reliably Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

nonreliably

Translations (21)

fi luotettavasti (in a reliable manner) · sh pouzdano (in a reliable manner) · it solidamente (in a reliable manner) · ru надёжно (in a reliable manner) · cmn 可靠地 (in a reliable manner) · fr fiablement (in a reliable manner) · it attendibilmente (in a reliable manner) · de verlässlich (in a reliable manner) · it affidabilmente (in a reliable manner) · pl pewnie (in a reliable manner) · pl rzetelnie (in a reliable manner) · cs spolehlivě (in a reliable manner) · ja 頼もしく (in a reliable manner) · es fiablemente (in a reliable manner) · de zuverlässig (in a reliable manner) · ja しっかり (in a reliable manner) · fr de manière fiable (in a reliable manner) · hu megbízhatóan (in a reliable manner) · pl wiarygodnie (in a reliable manner) · sh поуздано (in a reliable manner) · pl solidnie (in a reliable manner)