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Definition: Undoubtedly |
UndoubtedlyAdverb1. With certainty; "it's undoubtedly very beautiful". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "undoubtedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: UndoubtedlySynonyms: beyond any doubt (adv), beyond question (adv), doubtless (adv), without doubt (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Undoubtedly |
| English words defined with "undoubtedly": beyond any doubt, beyond question ♦ doubtless ♦ No doubt ♦ Past question ♦ without doubt. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "undoubtedly": bagbiter ♦ Gordon Riots ♦ Horse ♦ minifloppies ♦ resuming point ♦ Wedding Knives, Werewolf. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, I don't know about superior, but we are undoubtedly the next stage of human evolution, after Homo sapiens that is. (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch) The Fhrer has told his conference that the documents are undoubtedly genuine. (The Man Who Never Was; writing credit: Nigel Balchin; Ewen Montagu) Yes, he's undoubtedly English. (The Garden of Allah; writing credit: Robert Hichens; W.P. Lipscomb) | |
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![]() | Figure 32. Richter surface thermometer, used for measuring the surface waters of the sea. This model was constructed in 1911 by Carl Richter in Berlin. Little is known as to when and where this instrument was tested and used. Undoubtedly it was meant to measure the temperature of water acquired with a surface sampling bucket. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 65. 5-liter Comelli bottle created by Jean Comelli undoubtedly for water chemistry studies of Jean Brouardel. Left: descending. Right: ascending. Very little is known about the effectiveness of this instrument or where it was used. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry Ward Beecher | Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little. |
Titus Maccius Plautus | There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. |
William Ellery Channing | Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | His words are, The like natural inducement hath brought men to know that it is no less their duty, to love others than themselves; for seeing those things which are equal, must needs all have one measure; if I cannot but wish to receive good, even as much at every man's hands, as any man can wish unto his own soul, how should I look to have any part of my desire herein satisfied, unless myself be careful to satisfy the like desire, which is undoubtedly in other men, being of one and the same nature? To have any thing offered them repugnant to this desire, must needs in all respects grieve them as much as me; so that if I do harm, I must look to suffer, there being no reason that others should shew greater measure of love to me, than they have by me shewed unto them: my desire therefore to be loved of my equals in nature as much as possible may be, imposeth upon me a natural duty of bearing to them-ward fully the like affection; from which relation of equality between ourselves and them that are as ourselves, what several rules and canons natural reason hath drawn, for direction of life, no man is ignorant. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | The most avid proponents of the post-War Amendments undoubtedly intended them to remove all legal distinctions among "all persons born or naturalized in the United States." (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | A charming place, undoubtedly. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | But we perhaps exaggerate the grey or sable tinge, which undoubtedly characterised the mood and manners of the age. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This undoubtedly comprises all the other bodies thrown into this ravine on the morrow after the battle. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The pathophysiologic mechanisms leading to mental retardation are undoubtedly complex. (references) | |
The child who knows the illness is more serious than the usual childhood illness is undoubtedly afraid, and secrecy tends to isolate and increase fears. (references) | ||
The observed clinical variability among individuals is partly due to these genetic factors, but environmental and lifestyle factors undoubtedly contribute to the variation. (references) | ||
Business | The drive behind local demand is undoubtedly the fast growing food industry. (references) | |
Companies that have a diverse range of products will undoubtedly be at an advantage. (references) | ||
China will undoubtedly increase the usage of fertilizer to further raise total agricultural production. (references) | ||
Economic History | China | China's top leaders undoubtedly play a big role in deciding sensitive political cases. (references) |
Argentina | Since the 1990s, the Argentine marketplace has undoubtedly experienced the effect of this wave. (references) | |
Chile | English is undoubtedly the international language for business, technical and professional studies in almost all sectors. (references) | |
Political Economy | Burma | This ruling will undoubtedly govern other state-level sanctions legislation. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | The discount rate was lowered from 29% (April, 2000) to 19% (June, 2001). The reduction of rates has only marginally influenced the banking sector, but this trend will undoubtedly stimulate banks to increase their medium-term credit activity. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh. Some Bavarian peasants having caught a wolf one evening, tied it to a post by the tail and went to bed. The next morning nothing was there! Greatly perplexed, they consulted the local priest, who told them that their captive was undoubtedly a werewolf and had resumed its human for during the night. "The next time that you take a wolf," the good man said, "see that you chain it by the leg, and in the morning you will find a Lutheran." |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Under a liberal act of that sort he would undoubtedly be able to secure the services of most of the railroad companies, and the interest of the Department would be thus advanced. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | The information that they have derived from such experts as they have found abroad will undoubtedly be found helpful in the solution of the difficult problem they have in hand. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Undoubtedly the clarification of the principles of international law would be helpful, and the efforts of scholars to prepare such a work for adoption by the various nations should have our sympathy and support. |
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| "Undoubtedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.29% of the time. "Undoubtedly" is used about 2,407 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.29% | 2,390 | 3,739 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.71% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,407 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lose now performer strong then undoubtedly will | 3 |
undoubtedly | 2 |
burdensome effort find may responsibility seem them these time undoubtedly well while will worth | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "undoubtedly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pa dyshim (admittedly, by all means, certainly, decidedly, definitely, distinctly, doubtless, ex cathedra, far and away, implicitly, out and out, quite so, sure enough, sure thing, surely, unhesitatingly, without a doubt, without fail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | يقينا (assuredly), من غير شك (no mistake), بالتاكيد (indeed, obviously, of course, point blank, surely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | несъмнено (admittedly, doubtless, of a surety, out of question, sure), безспорно (doubtless, easily, with a vengeance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 無疑 (no doubt), 明明 (obviously, plainly), 容置疑地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | urèitì (absolutely, at all events, certainly, definitely, without fail), nespornì (admittedly, indisputably), nepochybnì (certainly, doubtless, easily, without doubt), bezpochyby (doubtless, no doubt, probably, surely), bez pochyby. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | uden tvivl (no doubt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zeker (absolutely, certain, certainly, definitely, indeed, no doubt, probably, rather, sure, surely, without fail), bepaald (absolutely, certainly, definite, definitely, no doubt, without fail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sendube (no doubt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | ivaleyst (certainly, no doubt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | epäilemättä (doubtless, no doubt, unquestionably, without any doubt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans doute, sans aucune doute, indubitablement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zweifelsohne (indubitably, no doubt, undeniably, unmistakably, unmistakeably, without doubt), zweifellos (beyond doubt, certainly, decidedly, definitely, doubtless, indubitable, indubitably, surely, unarguably, undeniably, undisputed, undoubted, undoubtful, unquestionably), unzweifelhafte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναμφιβολώσ (unquestionably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | למעל" מכל ספק, אל כון (surely), בלי ספק (certainly, doubtless, no doubt), בלא ספק, בו"אי (certainly, of course, sure, surely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kétségtelenül (and no mistake, assuredly, by all odds, doubtless, downright, no doubt, questionless, undeniably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | vafalaust (no doubt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | niscaya (certainly, surely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | si capisce (no doubt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 屹度 (certainly, severely, sternly, surely, without fail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きっと (certainly, severely, sternly, surely, without fail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 확실하게 (Authentically, Certainly, surely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn ourys (admittedly, clearly, definitely, doubtless, indubitably, without question), gyn dooyt (doubtless), dy shickyr (definitely, surely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | indudablemente (no doubt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oubtedlyunday niewątpliwie. (various references) semdúvidaalguma, semdúvida (certainly, indeed, rather, surely), sem dúvida (beyond question, in a dispute with, naturally, out of doubt, questionless, really, sure, surely), indiscutivelmente, incontestavelmente (decidedly, questionless). (various references) sigur (absolute, absolutely, assuredly, certain, certainly, cocksure, confident, convinced, decided, dependable, indeed, it must be, positive, reliable, reliant, safe, safely, secure, self confident, sound, steady, sterling, straight, sure, surely, tenacious, trustworthy, undeniable, unequivocal). (various references) несомненно (and no mistake, assuredly, by long odds, certain, certainly, clearly, decidedly, definitely, doubtless, evidently, for fair, forsooth, no doubt, out and out, surely, there is no question that, without doubt). (various references) nesumnijvo. (various references) sin duda (clearly, in all probability, no doubt, without question, yea), indudablemente (beyond doubt, certainly, doubtlessly, out of doubt, without doubt, without question). (various references) otvivelaktigt (by all odds, doubtless, no doubt). (various references) kesin olarak (accurately, categorically, definitely, determinedly, exactly, firmly, flat, for certain, implicitly, ocularly, point blank, positively, precisely, really, rightly, unquestioningly), şüphesiz olarak. (various references) безсумнівно (beyond doubt, beyond question, certainly, clearly, decidedly, decisively, doubtless, easily, far and away, no doubt, out of dispute, out of doubt, questionless, surely, without doubt, without question). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | certe, haud dubie, nimirum. (various references) |
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"Undoubtedly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ondoubtedly, undoubtadly, undoubtebly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "undoubtedly" (pronounced undou"tudlē) |
| 5 | -t u d l ē | admittedly, assertedly, belatedly, contentedly, excitedly, heatedly, pointedly, purportedly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, unexpectedly, unprecedentedly, wholeheartedly. |
| 4 | -u d l ē | acidly, advisedly, allegedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, candidly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, doggedly, evenhandedly, guardedly, markedly, placidly, rapidly, rigidly, ruggedly, solidly, splendidly, stupidly, supposedly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, validly, vividly, wickedly, wretchedly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, coldly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, Diddley, downwardly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, haphazardly, hardly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, kindly, loudly, madly, medley, mildly, niggardly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, profoundly, proudly, Ridley, roundly, rudely, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, soundly, straightforwardly, thirdly, unfriendly, ungodly, upwardly, weirdly, widely, wildly, worldly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-l-n-o-t-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: undoubled, undoubted. | |
-3 letters: obtunded, unbolted, undouble. | |
-4 letters: blunted, bounded, bundled, doubled, doublet, doubted, notedly, outduel, unlobed. | |
-5 letters: betony, beyond, blonde, bolted, bonded, bounty, buddle, bundle, bunted, buoyed, butled, buyout, double, doubly, dunted, dynode, louden, louted, lunted, nebuly, noddle, nodule, nudely, obtund, outbuy, outbye, toddle, tubule, unbelt, unbolt, unduly, undyed, untold, yodled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 64 6F 75 62 74 65 64 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. --- ..- -... - . -.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01101111 01110101 01100010 01110100 01100101 01100100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d o u b t e d l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 006F 0075 0062 0074 0065 0064 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580708187688671707891 |
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