duly

Adverb

Meaning

In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

properly appropriately suitably fittingly fitly befittingly right well proper appropriate equally fairly truly correctly adequate
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Antonyms

unfortunately poorly badly incorrectly wrongly improperly
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Phrases with the word

duly noted duly authorized

Anagrams

Ludy

Examples

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. Aldous Huxley

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. James Madison

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. Vitruvius

THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning. John Kenneth Galbraith

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. Calvin Coolidge

Vexations, duly borne, Are but as trials, which heaven's love to man Sends for his good. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Dulwichian dulwilly dulxanthone duly noted dulzaina dulzian