admirably

adv

1. In a way worthy of admiration.

   “Near-synonym: laudably”

   “He succeeded admirably in drawing fire away from the troop transports.”

   “Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.”

   “...yet more than all I had heard of it, now strongly informed me I was to expect that supreme pleasure which she had placed in the meeting of those parts so admirably fitted for each other.”

2. To an admirable degree.

   “They have made admirably great improvements in quality.”

   “Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.”