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INDUBITABLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does indubitably mean?
• INDUBITABLY (adverb)
The adverb INDUBITABLY has 1 sense:
1. in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted
Familiarity information: INDUBITABLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted
Synonyms:
beyond a doubt; beyond a shadow of a doubt; beyond doubt; indubitably
Context example:
his guilt was established beyond a shadow of a doubt
Pertainym:
indubitable (too obvious to be doubted)
Context examples
Lost they indubitably were; but the boat remained, and Wolf Larsen made one more reckless effort to recover it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He gave them the trail as a privilege indubitably theirs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Sir Thomas, meanwhile, went on with his own hopes and his own observations, still feeling a right, by all his knowledge of human nature, to expect to see the effect of the loss of power and consequence on his niece's spirits, and the past attentions of the lover producing a craving for their return; and he was soon afterwards able to account for his not yet completely and indubitably seeing all this, by the prospect of another visitor, whose approach he could allow to be quite enough to support the spirits he was watching.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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