invariably

English

Etymology

From invariable +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛɹ.i.ə.bli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛə.ɹi.ə.bli/
• (colloquial or dialectal) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛ(ə).ɹə.bli/
• Hyphenation: in‧va‧ri‧ably

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

invariably (not comparable)

1. Every time; always, without change.

   He is invariably late for meetings.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

   • 1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 770:

     In common with most Swiss Railways the standard of equipment and of operating efficiency is high, and stations and trains are invariably clean and well maintained.

   • 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE‎, page 21:

     As a consequence of the previous rules, each of the sixty-four squares is invariably indicated by a unique combination of a letter and a number.

Synonyms

• invariously, uniformly; See also Thesaurus:uniformly

Translations

always

Bulgarian: винаги (bg) (vinagi), постоянно (bg) (postojanno) Catalan: invariablement Dutch: onveranderlijk (nl) steevast (nl) Finnish: poikkeuksetta (fi) French: invariablement (fr), constamment (fr), perpétuellement (fr) Hungarian: mindig (hu), minden esetben, kivétel nélkül Polish: niezmiennie (pl), nieodmiennie Russian: неизме́нно (ru) (neizménno) Spanish: invariablemente (es)