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admirably

adv
/ˈæd.mə.ɹə.bli/UK/ˈæd.mɪɹ.ə.bli/CA

Etymology

From admirable + -ly.

  1. derived from admirābilis
  2. derived from admirable
  3. inherited from admyrable
  4. suffixed as admirably — “admirable + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a way worthy of admiration.

    • Near-synonym: laudably
    • He succeeded admirably in drawing fire away from the troop transports.
    • Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.

  2. To an admirable degree.

    • They have made admirably great improvements in quality.
    • 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nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at admirably. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at admirably. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at admirably

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA