reliantly
- adverb
- /rɪˈlaɪəntli/
:
confiadamente
- He spoke reliantly of the mentor who had guided his career for years.
- self-reliantly
Examples
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Moreover, he realized at Walden Pond what the Epicureans discovered in their garden school outside Athens, Greece: that to live modestly and self-reliantly does indeed cause one to take pleasure in what lies within rather than in one's estate.
Academic text (2004) -
In this way, she answered Fuller's exhortations to women of the nineteenth century to break with oppressive societal norms, emboldening them to live self-reliantly.
Academic text (2017) -
She relied on her friends reliantly for support during difficult times.
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The team worked reliantly together, trusting each other to meet deadlines.
Synonyms
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2.8
In a way that shows you believe a person or thing will help you
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3.9
In a way that relies on another person or thing
Antonyms
How Dependent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reliantly comes from the verb rely, which goes back to the Latin root ligare meaning 'to bind' plus the prefix re- meaning 'back'. So to rely on someone is like being 'bound to' or depending on them, and reliantly means acting with that trust or dependence.