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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In a frank manner; candidly.
  • adverb In truth; honestly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a frank or unreserved manner; without reserve or disguise; candidly: as, to confess one's faults frankly.
  • Freely; without hindrance or restraint; willingly.
  • Synonyms see frank, adjective

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a frank manner; freely.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb manner in a frank, open or (too) honest manner.
  • adverb speech act In truth, to tell the truth.

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

  • adverb (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that

Etymologies

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frank +‎ -ly

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