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unmistakably

UK/ˌʌnmɪsˈteɪkəbli/US/ˌʌnmɪsˈteɪkəbli/
adverbB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,307 of 15,258neutral

Unmistakably means so clearly that it could not be taken for anything else. There is no second possibility.

It usually sits before an adjective or a noun phrase, giving unmistakably British, unmistakably his handwriting, unmistakably the smell of burning. The word does emphasis rather than description, since it insists on certainty. It is often spelled unmistakeably with an e, and both are accepted. Clearly and obviously do the same job with less force behind them.

Definitions of unmistakably

  1. 1adverbunmistakablyIn a way that cannot be mistaken for anything else.B2+

    “The voice was unmistakably hers.”

Where it comes from

From unmistakable + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 27 of A Man Called Ove.

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unmistakably in the wild

  • Described by Allen Curnow as New Zealand's "first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet", he was born in Penrose, Auckland on 10 January 1905.

    R. A. K. Mason

  • The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "large, ambitious, and unmistakably prosperous-looking".

    St Philip's Church, Alderley Edge

  • Alec Wilder wrote of the song, It is a smooth, direct, slightly rhythmic ballad of no great range and unmistakably a song of its time, the late thirties.

    I Hadn't Anyone Till You

  • However, it is unmistakably his." Harburg did not know where he acquired the title, saying, "the juxtaposition of those two phrases is almost a whole world of philosophy".

    Last Night When We Were Young

  • The two shahs are standing on the body of a fallen enemy, unmistakably a Roman, whose crown indicates that he is an emperor.

    Coronation of Ardashir II

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.

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