Indistinguishably
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
"Mrs. Seal wandered about with newspaper cuttings, which seemed to her either "quite splendid" or "really too bad for words." She used to paste these into books, or send them to her friends, having first drawn a broad bar in blue pencil down the margin, a proceeding which signified equally and indistinguishably the depths of her reprobation or the heights of her approval."
- 2 Indiscriminately. archaic
Example
More examples"Mrs. Seal wandered about with newspaper cuttings, which seemed to her either "quite splendid" or "really too bad for words." She used to paste these into books, or send them to her friends, having first drawn a broad bar in blue pencil down the margin, a proceeding which signified equally and indistinguishably the depths of her reprobation or the heights of her approval."
Etymology
From indistinguishable + -ly.
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