adverb

understandably

adverb

For reasons that make sense or are easy to sympathize with.

"Understandably, she was furious after waiting three hours."

How to Use Understandably

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishUsed to show that a reaction makes sense given what happened.

Common pairings

understandably upset understandably nervous understandably cautious

more understandably comparative, most understandably superlative

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_____, she was furious after waiting three hours.

From understandable plus the adverb-forming suffix -ly.

notably probably arguably amicably suitably reliably admirably favorably miserably inexorably reasonably invariably