Contextualizebeta

admittedly

adv

Etymology

From admitted + -ly.

Definitions

  1. As is acknowledged to be true

    As is acknowledged to be true; by general admission; confessedly.

    • Admittedly, vandalism is a bit of a problem.
    • She was admittedly the one who killed the baron.
    • Adopting a computerlike countermeasure for a problem enabled by computer algorithms is admittedly an unnatural practice.

  2. Signals a concession followed by a counterpoint usually headed by but.

    • It's only a theory, admittedly, but it might work.
    • Admittedly he can't swim, but he still loves going to the seaside anyway.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for admittedly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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