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ADMIRABLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an admirable manner
Example:
the children's responses were admirably normal
Synonyms:
admirably; commendable; laudably; praiseworthily
Classified under:
Pertainym:
admirable (deserving of the highest esteem or admiration)
Context examples:
The whole Company, leading their horses, passed across to the small hill which loomed in front of them out of the mist. It was indeed admirably designed for defence, for it sloped down in front, all jagged and boulder-strewn, while it fell away in a sheer cliff of a hundred feet or more.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was very much pleased with Randalls, thought it a most admirably arranged house, would hardly allow it even to be very small, admired the situation, the walk to Highbury, Highbury itself, Hartfield still more, and professed himself to have always felt the sort of interest in the country which none but one's own country gives, and the greatest curiosity to visit it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It would do for me and Dora admirably: with a little front garden for Jip to run about in, and bark at the tradespeople through the railings, and a capital room upstairs for my aunt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
What you have told me, said my master, upon the subject of war, does indeed discover most admirably the effects of that reason you pretend to: however, it is happy that the shame is greater than the danger; and that nature has left you utterly incapable of doing much mischief.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
So far all had gone admirably.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The alarm of fire was admirably done.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In everything but disposition they were admirably taught.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In the pump-room, one so newly arrived in Bath must be met with, and that building she had already found so favourable for the discovery of female excellence, and the completion of female intimacy, so admirably adapted for secret discourses and unlimited confidence, that she was most reasonably encouraged to expect another friend from within its walls.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘Most admirably.’
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
