admittedly

English

Etymology

From admitted +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

admittedly (comparative more admittedly, superlative most admittedly)

1. As is acknowledged to be true; by general admission; confessedly.

   Admittedly, vandalism is a bit of a problem.

   It's only a theory, admittedly, but it might work.

   She was admittedly the one who killed the baron.

   • 2024 May 6, Ben Guarino, “Defend Yourself against AI Impostor Scams with a Safe Word”, in Scientific American‎:

     Adopting a computerlike countermeasure for a problem enabled by computer algorithms is admittedly an unnatural practice.

Synonyms

• granted

Related terms

• admit
• admissibly

Translations

by admission

Czech: nepochybně (cs) French: certes (fr) German: zugegebenermaßen (de) Greek: ομολογουμένως (el) (omologouménos) Hungarian: kétségkívül (hu), kétségtelenül (hu), (followed by a subordinate clause) kétségtelen (hu), nem vitás, el kell ismerni, be kell vallani Italian: dichiaratamente (it), innegabilmente (it) Polish: co prawda (pl) Portuguese: admitidamente Russian: по о́бщему призна́нию (po óbščemu priznániju) Serbo-Croatian: doduše (sh) Spanish: la verdad es que, lo cierto es que, es cierto que, hay que admitir que, admitidamente Ukrainian: щопра́вда (ščoprávda)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “admittedly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “admittedly”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.