Indubiously [adv]

In·du·bi·ous·ly

Pronunciation: \ˈin-dü-bē-əs-lē also dyü-\

Function: adverb

The word "indubiously" has always been one of my favorites, but so many of my peers constantly insist "Indubiously isn't a word! You can't go around saying it! Nya nya nya!"

If you try to Google "Indubiously," the results are a (very accurate) Urban Dictionary definition, a website about living indubiously, and many websites trying to farm clicks.

So this is for my definition for those naysayers (or nyasayers):

We start with our root word: dubious. Merriam-Webster's definition:

du·bi·ous

Pronounciation: \ˈdü-bē-əs also dyü-\

Function: adjective

Etymology: Latin dubius, from dubare to vacillate; akin to Latin duo two

Date: 1548

1: giving rise to uncertainty: as a: of doubtful promise or outcome dubious plan> b: questionable or suspect as to true nature or quality dubious legality>

2: unsettled in opinion : Doubtful dubious about the plan>

We then add the prefix in- to our root word, which this page shows will cause our root word to have a modification of "not" or "without." Now having indubious as the word, our definition becomes "not giving rise to uncertainty," or "not unsettled in opinion;" basically, indubious is a new adjective meaning "without uncertainty."

The final step is to at an -ly to our already modified root. This changes adjective to adverb. We now have a beautiful adverb meaning "without uncertainty" that we can stick into sentences as needed: Indubiously.

Indubiously!

Brilliant! You now have your catch-all adverb; it fits anywhere. Try using it the next time that you want to sound mysterious and intelligent, just stick indubiously at the end of your sentence.

Examples:

"Why, that sandwich looks so good, indubiously!"

"Although I might not have enough RAM right now, Windows 7 will indubiously work perfectly on my laptop when I do!"

"Indubitably is indubiously not as interesting or highfalutin a word as indubiously!"

I do have a bone to pick with indubitably, but that's for another day.

And with this, I end my meaningless ramble on the psuedo-word of indubiously, which is why I will now give these words meaning. I want your help in getting indubiously into the word-history books (dictionaries, as some are calling them) by the year 2010! If you believe in my cause, then you no doubt will return to this blog periodically to find what new meaningless things that I've written.

Indubiously,

Mitch