reliably

English

Etymology

From reliable +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

reliably (comparative more reliably, superlative most reliably)

1. In a reliable manner.

   Genuine cowards follow the wicked and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.

   • 2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:

     Above all, rail needs to be boring. By that, I mean that it must run its timetable reliably, day-in and day-out. Punctuality and reliability remain the bedrock of a successful railway.

Derived terms

• nonreliably

Translations

in a reliable manner

Chinese: Mandarin: 可靠地 (zh) (kěkào de) Czech: spolehlivě (cs) Finnish: luotettavasti (fi) French: de manière fiable (fr), fiablement (fr) German: zuverlässig (de), verlässlich (de) Italian: attendibilmente (it), affidabilmente (it), solidamente (it) Japanese: しっかり (ja) (shikkari), 頼もしく (ja) (たのもしく, tanomoshiku) Polish: rzetelnie (pl), wiarygodnie (pl), solidnie (pl), pewnie (pl) Russian: надёжно (ru) (nadjóžno) Serbo-Croatian: поуздано, pouzdano (sh)

Anagrams

• Bareilly, beryllia, blearily