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English
Etymology
From similar + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
similarly (comparative more similarly, superlative most similarly)
- (manner) In a like style or manner.
- Synonym: likewise
The sisters dressed similarly.
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
- (conjunctive) Used to link similar items
Translations
in a similar style or manner
- Bulgarian: подобно (bg) (podobno), по същия начин (po sǎštija način)
- Catalan: semblantment
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 類似地／类似地 (zh) (lèisì de), 同樣地／同样地 (zh) (tóngyàng de), 相似地 (zh) (xiāngsì de),
- Czech: podobně (cs)
- Dutch: gelijk (nl), evenzo (nl), op dezelfde manier
- Esperanto: simile (eo)
- Finnish: samoin (fi), samaten (fi), vastaavasti (fi)
- French: pareillement (fr), semblablement (fr), similairement (fr)
- Georgian: ასევე (ka) (aseve), მსგავსად (msgavsad)
- German: ähnlich (de)
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍉 (analeikō)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ὁμοίως (homoíōs)
- Hebrew: בדומה (bedome)
- Hungarian: hasonlóan (hu)
- Irish: mar an gcéanna, ar an mbealach céanna, ar an gcuma chéanna
- Italian: similarmente, similmente (it)
- Japanese: 同様に (ja) (どうように, dōyō ni)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ھەروەھا (herweha)
- Latin: similiter (la)
- Polish: podobnie (pl), analogicznie (pl)
- Portuguese: similarmente
- Russian: подо́бным о́бразом (podóbnym óbrazom), та́к же (ru) (ták že), аналоги́чно (ru) (analogíčno), подо́бно (ru) (podóbno)
- Scottish Gaelic: mar an ceudna
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: слѝчно
- Roman: slìčno (sh)
- Spanish: similarmente, igualmente (es), asimismo (es), de la misma manera
- Swedish: likadant (sv), likaledes (sv)
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