understandably

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English understandable Middle English -ly English -ly English understandably From understandable + -ly.

1. For reasons that are easy to understand or sympathise with.

   “Understandably, he was too embarrassed to speak.”

   “Embarrassed, he understandably refused to speak.”

2. In an understandable manner.

   “When presenting in front of the class, take care to speak clearly and understandably.”

   “Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.”