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Definition of Clearly
1. Adverb. Without doubt or question. "History has clearly shown the folly of that policy"
2. Adverb. In an intelligible manner. "The foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly"
Partainyms: Clear, Intelligible, Comprehensible
Antonyms: Unintelligibly
3. Adverb. Clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment. "I could clearly see myself in his situation"
4. Adverb. In an easily perceptible manner. "She cried loud and clear"
Definition of Clearly
1. adv. In a clear manner.
Definition of Clearly
1. Adverb. (context: manner) In a clear manner. ¹
2. Adverb. (context: modal) Without a doubt; obviously. ¹
3. Adverb. (context: degree) To a degree clearly discernible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clearly
1. in a clear manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clearly
Literary usage of Clearly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott (1895)
"CHAPTER VIII. — Explain Waldemar's first speech on page 86. Could any of the laws
of the tournament be more clearly or more simply expressed ? ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"clearly he will. Possibly, I proceeded, this constitution may be the most beautiful
of all. Embroidered as it is with every kind of character, ..."
3. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"Her silence clearly demonstrated that she knew nothing about the matter, and had
failed to comprehend his meaning, so that out of complaisance he said to ..."
4. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"... HE IS NOW THIRTY YEARS OF AGE, AND UNDER THE TEACHING OF AMBROSE, PERCEIVED
MORE AND MORF. clearly THE TRUTH OF CATHOLIC ..."
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