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clearly

adv
/ˈklɪɚli/US/ˈklɪəli/UK/ˈkliːɹli/

Etymology

From Middle English clerli, clerely, clerelych, cleerliche, clerliche. By surface analysis, clear + (adverbial) -ly.

  1. inherited from clerli

Definitions

  1. In a clear manner.

    • He enunciated every syllable clearly.

  2. Without a doubt

    Without a doubt; obviously.

    • Clearly, the judge erred in his opinion.
    • While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on.

  3. To a degree clearly discernible.

    • He was clearly wrong on all points but one.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at clearly

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