DOUBTLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doubtless mean? 

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

1. without doubt; certainly

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBTLESS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without doubt; certainly

Synonyms:

doubtless; doubtlessly; undoubtedly

Context example:

it's undoubtedly very beautiful

 Context examples 

Doubtless, there is something magnetic or electric in some of these combinations of occult forces which work for physical life in strange way; and in himself were from the first some great qualities.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His resentment was in proportion to the distress of his circumstances—and he was doubtless as violent in his abuse of me to others as in his reproaches to myself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Days and nights of sleeplessness and anxiety had doubtless turned my head.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?

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

The Cunninghams joined us, as you doubtless remember, outside the kitchen door.

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

Doubtless their wives loved them, and suffered with them and for them, not because of but in spite of their infatuation for perpetual motion.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Doubtless you find it so in England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Then you have doubtless seen my poor Sir William also—my poor, poor Sir William!”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the little woman was doubtless much older.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This picture is gone, and was doubtless the temptation which urged the murderer to the deed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)