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safely en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /ˈseɪfli/

Etymology

From Middle English savely; equivalent to safe + -ly.

Meanings

1. 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 you see is what you get[…] 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:
   • Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods. 2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN:
2. 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:
   • It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way. 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

Forms

Translations (38)

it in sicurezza (in a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting) · pl bezpiecznie (in a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting) · wa el såvrité (in a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting) · es a salvamano (in a safe manner) · uk безпе́чно (in a safe manner) · es salvamente (in a safe manner) · ar بِأَمَان (in a safe manner) · nl veilig (in a safe manner) · es con prudencia (in a safe manner) · ar بِسَلَام (in a safe manner) · la tūtō (in a safe manner) · fr prudemment (in a safe manner) · es sin peligro (in a safe manner) · be бяспе́чна (in a safe manner) · pt seguramente (in a safe manner) · pl bezpiecznie (in a safe manner) · hu biztonságosan (in a safe manner) · gl seguramente (in a safe manner) · es con cuidado (in a safe manner) · wa sins risse (in a safe manner) · ru безопа́сно (in a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting) · it senza problemi (in a safe manner) · es sin ningún percance (in a safe manner) · it senza rischi (in a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting) · ro în siguranță (in a safe manner) · es sin ningún problema (in a safe manner) · es seguramente (in a safe manner) · enm savely (in a safe manner) · ru благополу́чно (in a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting) · fi turvallisesti (in a safe manner) · fr en toute sécurité (in a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting) · bg безопа́сно (in a safe manner) · enm savely (in a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting) · ru безопа́сно (in a safe manner) · cs bezpečně (in a safe manner) · es sin riesgos (in a safe manner) · it sicuramente (in a safe manner) · no trygt (in a safe manner)