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English
Etymology
From Middle English surely; equivalent to sure + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
surely (comparative surelier or more surely, superlative sureliest or most surely)
- Without fail.
- Certainly, undoubtedly.
Surely, you must be joking.
1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , →OCLC:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […].
- With confidence.
His feet were planted surely on the ground.
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Translations
certainly, undoubtedly
- Arabic: بِالتَّأْكِيد (bi-t-taʔkīd)
- Armenian: անկասկած (hy) (ankaskac)
- Bulgarian: несъмнено (bg) (nesǎmneno)
- Catalan: segurament (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 一定 (zh) (yídìng)
- Dutch: zeker (nl), vast (nl), zeker weten
- Estonian: kindlalt, kindlasti (et)
- Finnish: varmasti (fi), vakavasti (fi)
- French: sûrement (fr), assurément (fr)
- German: sicherlich (de)
- Greek: σίγουρα (el) (sígoura)
- Ancient Greek: δήπου (dḗpou)
- Icelandic: vissulega
- Italian: sicuramente (it)
- Japanese: 確かに (ja) (たしかに, tashika ni), てっきり (tekkiri)
- Khmer: ប្រាកដជា (praakɑat cie)
- Latin: certē, quippe
- Latvian: droši
- Livonian: julgstiz
- Macedonian: сигурно (sigurno)
- Norwegian: sikkert (no)
- Polish: z pewnością (pl), na pewno (pl), niewątpliwie (pl)
- Portuguese: certamente (pt), seguramente (pt)
- Russian: наверняка́ (ru) (navernjaká), коне́чно (ru) (konéčno), несомне́нно (ru) (nesomnénno)
- Slovak: určite
- Spanish: seguramente (es)
- Swedish: säkerligen (sv), säkert (sv), minsann (sv)
- Tagalog: tiyak, sigurado (tl), piho
- Tocharian B: nemcek
- Ukrainian: зві́сно (zvísno), безсумні́вно (uk) (bezsumnívno)
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Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
- surly, suerly, surliche, surelich, seurly, suyrly, swrly, seurerly, seuirly, sureli, sewrly, sourely, sewerly, swerly, sewrlye, surelye
Etymology
From sure + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛu̯rliː/, /ˈsiu̯rliː/, /ˈsuːrliː/
Adverb
surely (comparative surelier)
- safely (with safety and security)
- totally, bindingly, without doubt
- For sure, with certainty.
- truly, actually, really
- totally, entirely, wholly
- With conviction and belief; assuredly
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