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Frankly vs Willingly - What's the difference?

frankly | willingly | Synonyms |

Frankly is a synonym of willingly.


As adverbs the difference between frankly and willingly

is that frankly is (lb) in a frank, open or (too) honest manner while willingly is of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.

frankly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (lb) In a frank, open or (too) honest manner.
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  • *: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.
  • (lb) In truth, to tell the truth.
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    • willingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 29.
    • Now this is a process of the mind or thought, of which I would willingly know the foundation.

    Synonyms

    * gladly, happily