"infelicitously" meaning in English

See infelicitously in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Forms: more infelicitously [comparative], most infelicitously [superlative]
Etymology: infelicitous + -ly or in- + felicitously Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|infelicitous|ly}} infelicitous + -ly, {{prefix|en|in|felicitously}} in- + felicitously Head templates: {{en-adv}} infelicitously (comparative more infelicitously, superlative most infelicitously)
  1. In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate Related terms: felicitously, infelicitous, infelicity Translations (in infelicitous manner): onnettomasti (Finnish), surkeasti (Finnish)

Download JSON data for infelicitously meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "infelicitous",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "infelicitous + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "in",
        "3": "felicitously"
      },
      "expansion": "in- + felicitously",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "infelicitous + -ly or in- + felicitously",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more infelicitously",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most infelicitously",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "infelicitously (comparative more infelicitously, superlative most infelicitously)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with in-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 14, Manohla Dargis, “Star Log: Trippy Sci-Fi Mash-Up Alert!”, in New York Times",
          "text": "By turns absorbing, confounding, exhausting and altogether stranger and more rib-ticklingly funny than most fiction, Craig Baldwin's infelicitously titled and cacophonous provocation, \"Mock Up on Mu,\" comes close to defying categorization.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate"
      ],
      "id": "en-infelicitously-en-adv--Un8wWF0",
      "links": [
        [
          "infelicitous",
          "infelicitous"
        ],
        [
          "unfortunate",
          "unfortunate"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "felicitously"
        },
        {
          "word": "infelicitous"
        },
        {
          "word": "infelicity"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in infelicitous manner",
          "word": "onnettomasti"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in infelicitous manner",
          "word": "surkeasti"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "infelicitously"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "infelicitous",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "infelicitous + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "in",
        "3": "felicitously"
      },
      "expansion": "in- + felicitously",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "infelicitous + -ly or in- + felicitously",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more infelicitously",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most infelicitously",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "infelicitously (comparative more infelicitously, superlative most infelicitously)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "felicitously"
    },
    {
      "word": "infelicitous"
    },
    {
      "word": "infelicity"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with in-",
        "English terms suffixed with -ly",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 14, Manohla Dargis, “Star Log: Trippy Sci-Fi Mash-Up Alert!”, in New York Times",
          "text": "By turns absorbing, confounding, exhausting and altogether stranger and more rib-ticklingly funny than most fiction, Craig Baldwin's infelicitously titled and cacophonous provocation, \"Mock Up on Mu,\" comes close to defying categorization.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "infelicitous",
          "infelicitous"
        ],
        [
          "unfortunate",
          "unfortunate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in infelicitous manner",
      "word": "onnettomasti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in infelicitous manner",
      "word": "surkeasti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "infelicitously"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.