admittedly

English

Etymology

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.

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
• Ukrainian: щопра́вда (ščoprávda)

References

• “admittedly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “admittedly”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.