Definition of Accordingly

1. Adverb. (sentence connectors) because of the reason given. "Continued to have severe headaches and accordingly returned to the doctor"

Exact synonyms: Consequently
Partainyms: Consequent

2. Adverb. In accordance with. "She acted accordingly"

Definition of Accordingly

1. adv. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable.

Definition of Accordingly

1. Adverb. (context: manner) Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. ¹

2. Adverb. (context: conjunctive) In natural sequence; consequently; so. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Accordingly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accordingly

accordancy
accordant
accordantly
accordaunce
accorded
accorder
accorders
accordest
accordeth
according
according as
according to
according to Hoyle
according to one's understanding
according to plan
accordingly
accordion
accordion door
accordion file
accordion files
accordion graft
accordion pleat
accordioned
accordioning
accordionist
accordionists
accordionlike
accordions
accordment
accordments

Literary usage of Accordingly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1874)
"... in the town of Sharon, and order that he be commissioned accordingly. This Assembly do establish and confirm Mr. John Gome- stock to be Lieutenant of ..."

2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"Accordingly, having assaulted lasus on a sudden, und while the inhabitants thought nothing but that the ¡-hi:- belonged to the Athenians, ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"They accordingly returned straightway to Gibraltar. ... From the it, and it was accepted accordingly, though too late to be of any service. city of London ..."

4. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott (1895)
"She gazed, accordingly, upon the scene, which we shall endeavor to describe in the next chapter. CHAPTER XXXVII. Stern was the law which bade its vot'ries ..."

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