The AI-powered English dictionary
comparative franklier or more frankly, superlative frankliest or most frankly
In a frank or candid manner, especially in a way that may seem too open, excessively honest, or slightly blunt. quotations examples
She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915
(sentence adverb) In truth, to tell the truth. quotations examples
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
1939, Gone with the Wind, spoken by Rhett Butler (Clark Gable)
(sciences, medicine) To a degree large enough as to be plainly evident. examples