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boldly

adverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbəʊldli//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈbɒʊldli]/
  • United States//ˈboʊldli//

In a bold manner; with confidence.

adverb

  1. 1

    In a bold manner; with confidence.

    to boldly go where no man has gone before

    Postcards that are billboardlike communications with an immediate message stated boldly and creatively.

Etymology

From Middle English boldely, boldeliche, baldeliche, from Old English bealdlīċe (“boldly, earnestly”), equivalent to bold + -ly.

Forms

comparative
boldlier, more boldly
superlative
boldliest, most boldly
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).