DETERMINEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does determinedly mean? 

• DETERMINEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb DETERMINEDLY has 2 senses:

1. with determination; in a determined manner

2. with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner

  Familiarity information: DETERMINEDLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DETERMINEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With determination; in a determined manner

Synonyms:

determinedly; unfalteringly; unshakably

Context example:

he clung to the past determinedly

Pertainym:

determined (characterized by great determination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner

Synonyms:

ambitiously; determinedly

Context example:

she pursued her goals ambitiously

Pertainym:

determined (strongly motivated to succeed)

 Context examples 

I had already gained the door; but, reader, I walked back—walked back as determinedly as I had retreated.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When he could no longer endure, he would get up and stalk determinedly away from them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And while Arthur took up the tale, for the twentieth time, of his adventure with the drunken hoodlums on the ferry-boat and of how Martin Eden had rushed in and rescued him, that individual, with frowning brows, meditated upon the fool he had made of himself, and wrestled more determinedly with the problem of how he should conduct himself toward these people.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She nodded her head determinedly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Again, and yet again, White Fang sprang in, slashed, and got away untouched, and still his strange foe followed after him, without too great haste, not slowly, but deliberately and determinedly, in a businesslike sort of way.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)