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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
certainly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
almost certainly
▪ The story is almost certainly true.
definitely/certainly recommend
▪ We would definitely recommend these books to students in fourth to sixth grade.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
possible
▪ It is certainly possible that Mercury once had a molten iron core which has since partly or wholly solidified.
▪ Finding a new one is certainly possible.
▪ Oyster farming is certainly possible, and it's been done successfully in a number of places.
▪ Emotional appeals are certainly possible, but they are harder to make on a piece of white paper than face-to-face.
▪ Intraindustry trade is, however, certainly possible.
▪ It was certainly possible to study what would now be called ecological relationships before the founding of scientific ecology.
▪ It was certainly possible that the historical outlook, made it easier to dismiss the majority of instances.
true
▪ The same was certainly true of me, although my role was clearly less significant.
▪ This is certainly true when they deal with stories near home.
▪ However, that the main ideas were much the same is almost certainly true.
▪ That much is certainly true enough.
▪ This is certainly true in the North-East.
▪ This is certainly true of approval committees for thesis and dissertation proposals.
■ VERB
help
▪ Some back-row moves would certainly help to break up the pattern of play, but they must have a solid scrum first.
▪ The Harriman fortune and name certainly helped.
▪ Positive financial incentives in the form of specific grants from a specially established Department of Health Fund would certainly help.
▪ It certainly helps if you mix socially with successful people who encourage you.
▪ They certainly help to enhance a perspective that sees Faustus as a pawn between two more powerful forces.
▪ Educational grants and salary boosts could certainly help the careers of some nurses, but these are stopgap measures.
▪ We do not even have to posit a genetic advantage in imitation, though that would certainly help.
▪ Sewage plants that turn sludge into safer materials certainly help the environment, but they do release some chemicals.
look
▪ Mr. King I am interested to hear that, and I will certainly look into it.
▪ This sentence certainly looks like it is pure description although it is filled with ambiguities.
▪ I will certainly look at the point that my hon. Friend has mentioned.
▪ The police would certainly look for Tom Ripley around Dickie Greenleaf.
▪ You're certainly looking a lot better than when they brought you in.
▪ She certainly looked down on my mother, who was almost a foot shorter.
▪ The capital, Yangon, certainly looks like a boomtown.
▪ Mr. Jackson I shall certainly look into the position of the job club.
need
▪ You would certainly need convincing that they were going to change their management practices.
▪ And some explanation is certainly needed.
▪ The exemption you refer to certainly needs clarification.
▪ They were certainly needed, for by then the attendance had leapt to fifty-six.
▪ If the technology is used for more than word processing then lawyers will certainly need to be trained.
▪ He certainly needed to offer a response.
▪ The Republicans certainly need to find one, and fast.
▪ Ana Maria certainly needs her family around her now more than ever.
seem
▪ Mrs Donaldson, in last month's letters page, certainly seems to have the right idea.
▪ And some things certainly seem to be working for Roth.
▪ Tonight he certainly seemed at pains to play the perfect host.
▪ Well, that certainly seems pretty straight forward, even obvious.
▪ It certainly seemed as if his friend had snapped the bones of both his wings.
▪ He certainly seems to have had the interests of the blood-line at heart.
▪ In the uncompromising light of Jerusalem it had certainly seemed so.
▪ And to all of us who are eating less meat but paying more, it certainly seems less than a boom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Certainly, a backpacking trip in the high Sierras is not for everyone.
▪ We're certainly a lot better off than we were five years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And it certainly Was, though not in the way the interviewees assumed.
▪ And that she most certainly was not, she told herself adamantly.
▪ And that was certainly a start.
▪ Books and people certainly affected him.
▪ Not the papers or the magazines and certainly not Kylie.
▪ Should the man choose to chase the quail rather than shoot it, he would almost certainly still have his dinner.
▪ This thought now struck him as too simple and certainly unpleasant in its snobbery, and he tore it up.
▪ We are not especially well-treated, certainly not as well as the locals.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Certainly

Certainly \Cer"tain*ly\, adv. Without doubt or question; unquestionably.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
certainly

c.1300, in all main modern senses, from certain + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
certainly

adv. 1 In a way which is certain; with certainty. 2 Without doubt, surely.

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WordNet
certainly

adv. definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" [syn: surely, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting]

Usage examples of "certainly".

And yes, there were certainly movie scenes in the offices looking out over the mines, the noise, the smoke, but this character Bagby, they remembered a minor character in the movie, kind of a straight man, a foil, short, fat, foul mouthed, a kind of a Punchinello, Oscar, real opera buffa, Bagby in one or two crude dimensions maybe, a stock character, a comic device.

He was, in his time, I think, the ablest representative, certainly among the ablest, of the opinions opposed to mine.

The above, in substance, was the doctrine of Alexander Hamilton, the ablest practical financier and economist that ever lived, certainly without a rival in this country.

Alectors certainly were not native to Acorus, but neither were the indigens nor the landers.

Certainly, if there had been a second chryselephantine statue of Athena on the Acropolis, we should know of its existence.

Even granting that we know the exact level of the surface of the Acropolis in classical times at every point, we certainly do not know all the objects--votive offerings and the like--set up in various places.

Lord North, struck Adams as a conceited dandy and almost certainly a spy.

Hamilton himself allowed that if anything coming from John Adams could astonish, certainly this had.

She was certainly no beauty, but Adele had seen her spiky drive make an impression in gatherings of other women who were better looking in a merely physical sense.

He was said to have substituted glass powder for the expensive suspensions of tiny machines which cured river blindnessand certainly there had been more cases of river blindness the previous summer, although the Aedile attributed this to the greater numbers of biting flies which bred in the algae which choked the mud banks of the former harbor.

He wondered what an Afrikaner was-not an African, certainly, not by the way the Rivington men treated Negroes-and whether the name betokened resistance against Afrikaners, whatever they were, or by them.

Isabel subsidized feral hippies and the mulatto offspring of her criminal relations and Rachel Ebdus could certainly send Dylan, God help him, to Public School 38 to show his sole white face among that ocean of brown, to air his waterfall of girlish hair among the Afros, if that was what suited her principles.

It certainly made no odds as far as my oath to Aiten was concerned, I reminded myself.

Certainly Petra Cross held no threat, not with honey bums taking root allover the city and the country.

But it was certainly suggestive and I had only to look into the eyes of Aman Akbar to know what the suggestion was.