Definition of surely

"surely" in the adverb sense

1. surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting

definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'

"the results are surely encouraging"

"she certainly is a hard worker"

"it's going to be a good day for sure"

"they are coming, for certain"

"they thought he had been killed sure enough"

"he'll win sure as shooting"

"they sure smell good"

"sure he'll come"

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Quotations for surely

Good take heed
Doth surely speed. [ Proverb ]

Too surely, every setting day,
Some lost delight we mourn. [ Keble ]

Favor will as surely perish as life. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Surely use alone
Makes money not a contemptible stone. [ George Herbert ]

He stands not surely that never slips. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Ah! surely nothing dies but something mourns. [ Byron ]

Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart! [ Calderon ]

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. [ Sterne ]

Surely she wears low heeled shoes, she's apt to fail backwards. [ Proverb ]

If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. [ Poor Richard ]

Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind. [ Moses Harvey ]

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The love of ornament creeps slowly but surely into the female heart. [ Mrs. S. C. Hall ]

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate?
What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely? [ Lowell ]

Surely man is a being wonderfully vain, changeable, and vacillating. [ Montaigne ]

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life. [ Lowell ]

It was surely the devil that taught women to dance, and asses to bray. [ Proverb ]

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good. [ Johnson ]

Surely he is not a fool that hath unwise thoughts, but he that utters them. [ Bishop Hall ]

Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters. [ Hare ]

One may ruin himself by frankness, but one surely dishonors himself by duplicity. [ Vieillard ]

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain. [ Rousseau ]

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. [ Alice Cary ]

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. [ Tillotson ]

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. [ Bible ]

Surely the best way is to meet the enemy in the field, and not wait till he plunders us in our very bed-chamber. [ Goldsmith ]

That philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathise with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed. [ Lowell ]

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss. [ Max Muller ]

He that claims, either in himself or for another, the honours of perfection will surely injure the reputation which he designs to assist. [ Johnson ]

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity. [ Bible ]

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts. [ Percival ]

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music. [ E. Burritt ]

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here? [ Chapin ]

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which can never return. [ Johnson ]

The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty; and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire. [ Channing ]

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself. [ Andrew Lang ]

At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely. [ Luther ]

Surely it is better to enclose the gulf and hinder all access, than by encouraging us to advance a little, to entice us afterwards a little further, and let us perceive our folly only by our destruction. [ Johnson ]

Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety, - old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastical, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, - one in all, all in one. [ Marston ]

Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done. [ Carlyle ]

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life. [ Geo. S. Hillard ]

How sacred, how beautiful, is the feeling of affection in pure and guileless bosoms! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it; but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is made evil by the corruptions of those whom it was sent to bless and to preserve. [ Mordaunt ]

Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder, upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life. [ Lord Greville ]

How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be furnished without them? Shall we be so forward to pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now. [ Thoreau ]

The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality. [ Ruskin ]

surely in Scrabble®

The word surely is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters surely:

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surely in Words With Friends™

The word surely is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters surely:

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Words within the letters of surely

2 letter words in surely (4 words)

3 letter words in surely (9 words)

4 letter words in surely (12 words)

5 letter words in surely (6 words)

6 letter words in surely (1 word)

surely + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence surely

Words that start with surely (1 word)

Words with surely in them (1 word)

Words that end with surely (4 words)

Word Growth involving surely

Shorter words in surely

el rely

re rely

re sure

Longer words containing surely

leisurely

measurely unmeasurely