Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unmistakable manner; so as not to be mistaken. Also unmistakeably.

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  • adverb In an unmistakable manner; unquestionably.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a signal manner
  • adverb without possibility of mistake

Etymologies

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unmistakable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • What we have here, unmistakably, is unequivocal, opinionated judgment, also this: "The Friends of Meager Fortune (2006) is one of the greatest of all Canadian novels," "drawing a world that contains every quality ever imagined in mud and God," rooting humour in illogical thinking, and bursting with joy emerging from tragedy not in spite of it.

    2009 August 24 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • Feminists doing this — slandering a woman, and doing so in unmistakably sexist terms.

    Quote of the Day: From the Mouths of Feminists 2009

  • Feminists doing this — slandering a woman, and doing so in unmistakably sexist terms.

    Stromata Blog: 2009

  • What we have here, unmistakably, is unequivocal, opinionated judgment, also this: "The Friends of Meager Fortune (2006) is one of the greatest of all Canadian novels," "drawing a world that contains every quality ever imagined in mud and God," rooting humour in illogical thinking, and bursting with joy emerging from tragedy not in spite of it.

    Globe and Mail gets Evaluative 2009

  • It is, in short, unmistakably different from what happens when Missouri plays Bowling Green.

    How Time magazine enables Glenn Beck's lies 2009

  • Those born without a tag unmistakably ticketing them and their positions in the world were perforce ticketed.

    The Fighting Chance 1899

  • The breath, for that matter, was more than anything else, the look in his daughter's eyes -- the look with which he SAW her take in exactly what had occurred in her absence: Mrs. Rance's pursuit of him to this remote locality, the spirit and the very form, perfectly characteristic, of his acceptance of the complication -- the seal set, in short, unmistakably, on one of Maggie's anxieties.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

  • The breath, for that matter, was more than anything else, the look in his daughter's eyes -- the look with which he SAW her take in exactly what had occurred in her absence: Mrs. Rance's pursuit of him to this remote locality, the spirit and the very form, perfectly characteristic, of his acceptance of the complication -- the seal set, in short, unmistakably, on one of Maggie's anxieties.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • The breath, for that matter, was more than anything else, the look in his daughter's eyes -- the look with which he SAW her take in exactly what had occurred in her absence: Mrs. Rance's pursuit of him to this remote locality, the spirit and the very form, perfectly characteristic, of his acceptance of the complication -- the seal set, in short, unmistakably, on one of Maggie's anxieties.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

  • The breath, for that matter, was more than anything else, the look in his daughter's eyes -- the look with which he SAW her take in exactly what had occurred in her absence: Mrs. Rance's pursuit of him to this remote locality, the spirit and the very form, perfectly characteristic, of his acceptance of the complication -- the seal set, in short, unmistakably, on one of Maggie's anxieties.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

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