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undecidably en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English undecidable Middle English -ly English -ly English undecidably From undecidable + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In an undecidable manner.
    • Firstly, it is a fact of academic observation, as I mentioned earlier, that the descriptions which linguists provide for utterances are disputable, and disputed, what one might call undecidably so. 1974, Foundations of Language, volume 11, page 92:
    • It is to be read as just a blurry clew of lines and patches within the rhizome, that is, within again a blurry clew of lines and patches to and from which it (dis)connects incessantly, though undecidably. 2000, Ronnie Lippens, “Labyrinthine constitutions”, in Chaohybrids: Five Uneasy Peaces, page 129:
    • The child goes out to meet that cultural production and undecidably—this is a space of sheer play—undecidably finds or produces meaning in the sound memes given by his or her parents. 2015, Laura Mandell, Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age:

Antonyms

decidably