credibly

UK/ˈkɹɛdɪbli/US/ˈkɹɛdɪbli/

adverbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,131 of 15,258leans written

Credibly means in a way that can be believed. Credibly reported.

In journalism it signals that the source is trusted without naming them. To act credibly means being believed rather than being right.

Definitions of credibly

1adverbcrediblyIn a way that can be believed.C1
“The story was credibly sourced and turned out to be wrong.”

credibly is a manner.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*ḱerd-
Latin
crēdibilis — worthy of belief
Middle French
credible
Middle English
credible
English
credible
English, today
credibly

Built from

crēdō · Latin — believe

From credible + -ly. credible comes from Middle English credible, borrowed from Middle French credible, from Latin crēdibilis (“worthy of belief”), from crēdō (“believe”); see credit.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

credibly in the wild

On December 31, 2013, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Duluth named Zankl as one of 17 former priests credibly accused of child molestation.
Angelo Zankl
In 1991, he performed credibly in World Senior Chess Championship.
Kaarle Ojanen (chess player)
Ramsey is credibly believed to have stolen a Van Dyke oil sketch from Boughton House, one of the seats of the Duke of Buccleuch.
Leonard G. G. Ramsey
Lyons is listed by the Archdiocese of Washington as being credibly accused of sexually molesting a minor.
Thomas William Lyons
The database is provided by the University of Idaho Library, and is open to credibly sourced submissions from the general public.
Idaho's Women of Influence

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the crēdō family

incredible incredibly

credibly — used about once every 41,009 pages · #14,131 · point at the bar for the others

credibility

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