UNQUESTIONABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unquestionably mean? 

• UNQUESTIONABLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNQUESTIONABLY has 2 senses:

1. without question

2. without question and beyond doubt

  Familiarity information: UNQUESTIONABLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNQUESTIONABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without question

Synonyms:

unimpeachably; unquestionably

Context example:

they hired unimpeachably first-rate faculty members

Pertainym:

unquestionable (incapable of being questioned)

Sense 2

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:

unquestionable (incapable of being questioned)

 Context examples 

It is unquestionably the mark of his thumb.

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

“This is unquestionably the doctor’s hand, do you know?” resumed the lawyer.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mr. Wickham's chief object was unquestionably my sister's fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

After securing accommodations, and ordering a dinner at one of the inns, the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She had been thinking of him the moment before, as unquestionably sixteen miles distant.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Sir Thomas, however, was truly happy in the prospect of an alliance so unquestionably advantageous, and of which he heard nothing but the perfectly good and agreeable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If you had not assured us, my dear Copperfield, on the occasion of that agreeable afternoon we had the happiness of passing with you, that D. was your favourite letter, said Mr. Micawber, I should unquestionably have supposed that A. had been so.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Another paper, in deadly seriousness, reproving Helen Della Delmar for her parody, said: But unquestionably Miss Delmar wrote it in a moment of badinage and not quite with the respect that one great poet should show to another and perhaps to the greatest.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was returning to Mansfield with spirits ready to feed on melancholy remembrances, and tender associations, when her own fair self was before him, leaning on her brother's arm, and he found himself receiving a welcome, unquestionably friendly, from the woman whom, two moments before, he had been thinking of as seventy miles off, and as farther, much farther, from him in inclination than any distance could express.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

These convictions must unquestionably have their own pain, and severe was its kind; but they precluded that pain which Lady Russell would suffer in entering the house again, and returning through the well-known apartments.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)