"soberly" meaning in English

See soberly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Forms: more soberly [comparative], most soberly [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English soberly; equivalent to sober + -ly. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₁egʷʰ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|soberly}} Middle English soberly, {{suffix|en|sober|ly}} sober + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} soberly (comparative more soberly, superlative most soberly)
  1. In a sober manner; temperately; coolly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
    Sense id: en-soberly-en-adv-EszH0~0T Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ly

Download JSON data for soberly meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₁egʷʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "soberly"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English soberly",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sober",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "sober + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English soberly; equivalent to sober + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more soberly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most soberly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "soberly (comparative more soberly, superlative most soberly)",
      "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 suffixed with -ly",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a sober manner; temperately; coolly; calmly; gravely; seriously."
      ],
      "id": "en-soberly-en-adv-EszH0~0T",
      "links": [
        [
          "sober",
          "sober"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soberly"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₁egʷʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "soberly"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English soberly",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sober",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "sober + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English soberly; equivalent to sober + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more soberly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most soberly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "soberly (comparative more soberly, superlative most soberly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁egʷʰ-",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms suffixed with -ly"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a sober manner; temperately; coolly; calmly; gravely; seriously."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sober",
          "sober"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soberly"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.