DECIDEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decidedly mean? 

• DECIDEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb DECIDEDLY has 1 sense:

1. without question and beyond doubt

  Familiarity information: DECIDEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECIDEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without question and beyond doubt

Synonyms:

by all odds; decidedly; definitely; emphatically; in spades; unquestionably

Context example:

by all odds they should win

Pertainym:

decided (recognizable; marked)

 Context examples 

"No, I wouldn't, for the smart caps won't match the plain gowns without any trimming on them. Poor folks shouldn't rig," said Jo decidedly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She looked down very decidedly upon the Hayters, and thought it would be quite a misfortune to have the existing connection between the families renewed—very sad for herself and her children.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was all right: at present I decidedly preferred these fierce favours to anything more tender.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A draggled muslin cap on his head and a dirty gunny-sack about his slim hips proclaimed him cook of the decidedly dirty ship’s galley in which I found myself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was decidedly frigid in his manner to us, especially when he heard the errand upon which we had come.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Considering everything, I think a letter will be decidedly the best method of explanation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He argued like a young man very much bent on dancing; and Emma was rather surprized to see the constitution of the Weston prevail so decidedly against the habits of the Churchills.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Upon my word,” said her ladyship, “you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She shook her head decidedly, and Charles and Hal put the last odds and ends on top the mountainous load.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It is truly painful to contemplate mankind in such an aspect, Master Copperfield, but our reception was, decidedly, cool.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)