similarly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English similar

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English similarly

From similar + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.ə.lə.li/
  • (haplology) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.əli/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪmə.lɚ.li/

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Adverb

similarly (comparative more similarly, superlative most similarly)

1. (manner) In a like style or manner.

   Synonym: likewise

   The sisters dressed similarly.

   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

2. (conjunctive) Used to link similar items.

Translations

in a similar style or manner

• Bulgarian: подобно (bg) (podobno), по същия начин (po sǎštija način)
• Catalan: semblantment
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 類似地 / 类似地 (zh) (lèisì de), 同樣地 / 同样地 (zh) (tóngyàng de), 相似地 (zh) (xiāngsì de),

• Czech: podobně (cs)
• Dutch: gelijk (nl), evenzo (nl), op dezelfde manier
• Esperanto: simile (eo)
• Finnish: samoin (fi), samaten (fi), vastaavasti (fi)
• French: pareillement (fr), semblablement (fr), similairement (fr)
• Georgian: ასევე (ka) (aseve), მსგავსად (msgavsad)
• German: ähnlich (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍉 (analeikō)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ὁμοίως (homoíōs)

• Hebrew: בדומה (bedome)
• Hungarian: hasonlóan (hu)
• Irish: mar an gcéanna, ar an mbealach céanna, ar an gcuma chéanna
• Italian: similarmente, similmente (it)
• Japanese: 同様に (ja) (どうように, dōyō ni)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھەروەھا (herweha)

• Latin: similiter (la)
• Polish: podobnie (pl), analogicznie (pl)
• Portuguese: similarmente
• Russian: подо́бным о́бразом (podóbnym óbrazom), та́к же (ru) (ták že), аналоги́чно (ru) (analogíčno), подо́бно (ru) (podóbno)
• Scottish Gaelic: mar an ceudna
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слѝчно

  Latin: slìčno (sh)

• Spanish: similarmente, igualmente (es), asimismo (es), de la misma manera
• Swedish: likadant (sv), likaledes (sv)