Meaning & use
Understandably
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In a way that is reasonable to expect or accept, given the circumstances.
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Understandably, she was nervous before her first solo flight.
He was, understandably, reluctant to discuss the accident.
A note on using this word
Often placed at the start of a sentence to signal that the writer views the following reaction as justified.
Words with a similar meaning
reasonablynaturally
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