a Roland for an Oliver

From the stories of Roland and Oliver, legendary knights of equal might.

He responded to the insult a Roland for an Oliver, striking back just as hard.

(idiomatic, not comparable) Used to indicate that something is done in a manner that responds to an action with an equivalent action; tit for tat.


frettingly

en-adv

frettingly (comparative more frettingly, superlative most frettingly)

more frettingly (comparative)
most frettingly (superlative)

Like a mettled young war-horse that tosses his mane, / And frettingly champs at the bit and the rein

1866, Margaret Junkin Preston, Beechenbrook: a rhyme of the war, page 18:


aberrationally

aberrationally (comparative more aberrationally, superlative most aberrationally)

more aberrationally (comparative)
most aberrationally (superlative)

Our fine western and northern race, clara, probably the largest and most beautiful of all, also occurs aberrationally in most parts of central Europe.

1914, James William Tuft, A Natural History of the British Butterflies:

Because of the defocusing that occurs when rotated for wavelength tuning, an aberrationally non-corrected concave grating is not naturally suited to high resolution monochromators.

1997, Erwin G. Loewen, Evgeny Popov, Diffraction Gratings and Applications, page 253:

He was gruff and loud and unafraid of the aberrationally tall young men who were his livelihood.

2009, Jonathan Schwartz, All in Good Time: A Memoir, page 115:


naffly

naffly (comparative more naffly, superlative most naffly)

more naffly (comparative)
most naffly (superlative)

an original promo film called, very naffly, 'The Magic of Hollywood'

2009, Tim Robet, Nick Bradshaw, The DVD Stack, page 195:


farforth

From Middle English ferforth, from fer + forth. By surface analysis, far + forth.

As for their cities, he that knoweth one of them, knoweth them all: they be all so like one to another, as farforth as the nature of the place permitteth.

1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:

So long these knights discoursed diversly / Of straunge affaires, and noble hardiment, / Which they had past with mickle jeopardy, / That now the humid night was farforth spent […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Pro. Know thus far forth,
By accident most strange, bountifull Fortune
(Now my deere Lady) hath mine enemies
Brought to this shore

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 3, column 2, lines 178-180:

(obsolete) To a specific extent and no farther.


syndetically

From syndetic + -ally. Equivalent to syndeton + -ic + -ally.

(grammar, mathematics and library science) In a syndetic way, employing syndeton, using a conjunction or crossreferences.


investigationally

In terms of, or by means of, investigation.


artifactually

The weight measurements in the first run were artifactually high because of a tare weight error.

Some histopathologic details were artifactually obscured by the staining.

(medical imaging or laboratory testing) Apparently but not truly, with the appearance being due to artifacts; spuriously.


Slavically

Slavically (comparative more Slavically, superlative most Slavically)

more Slavically (comparative)
most Slavically (superlative)

Slavically accented English

a Slavically rounded nose


abiogenically

From abiogenic + -ally or a- + biogenically.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

Created in an abiogenic manner; created without assistance of natural organisms or their processes.


planispirally

planispirally (comparative more planispirally, superlative most planispirally)

more planispirally (comparative)
most planispirally (superlative)


uberly

But box of breakfast done, Eve begins to talk, responding uberly to his polite question, "So, what brings you to Saltspring?"

2004, Bill Gaston, Sointula, Raincoast Books, →ISBN, page 138:

Charlie, because he's so caring […] swore that the mole was getting larger, and so Lewis, who's had the mole for oh, his entire life, said it really hadn't changed, but because he loves Charlie, and because Charlie was uberly fretful about it, Lewis agreed to have said mole removed.

2005, Michelle Cunnah, Confessions of a Serial Dater, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 243:

It's no wonder since Bioshock is hailed as the spiritual successor of the uberly creepy System Shock games.

August 2007, Salehuddin Husin, “Bioshock”, in GameAxis Unwired:

(informal) Significantly; very, very much; extremely.


close to the wind

close to the wind (comparative closer to the wind, superlative closest to the wind)

closer to the wind (comparative)
closest to the wind (superlative)

/ˈkləʊs tə‿ðə ˈwɪnd/

(nautical) In a direction almost opposite to that from which the wind is blowing.

Time you want a real good friend is when you're gone just a bit close to the wind, and want to be set right again.

1850, F. W. Cukbey., “Against All Odds”, in The Dublin University Magazine, page 306:

Miriam's wordplay was steering fractionally too close to the wind for my liking.

2003, Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon, page 150:

This means, naturally, that a prosecutor anxious about tacking too close to the wind will disclose a favorable piece of evidence.

2004, James R. Acker, David C. Brody, Criminal Procedure: A Contemporary Perspective, page 422:

As far as an FA charge goes, Warnock sailed closest to the wind in his initial, expansively voiced televised criticism of Oliver—the youngest Premier League ref at 26

2011 September 26, “Warnock slams ref as Dunne own goal gifts QPR point”, in Irish Independent:

(figurative) Near a limit of feasibility or compliance with law or morality.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close to, the, wind.


asymptomatically

Without exhibiting any symptom of disease.


disconformably

disconformably (comparative more disconformably, superlative most disconformably)

more disconformably (comparative)
most disconformably (superlative)


hoppingly

hoppingly (comparative more hoppingly, superlative most hoppingly)

more hoppingly (comparative)
most hoppingly (superlative)


impressionably

impressionably (comparative more impressionably, superlative most impressionably)

more impressionably (comparative)
most impressionably (superlative)


eeke

For whatsoever hath bene writ of auncient tyme in greeke / By sundry men dispersedly, and in the latin eeke...

1567, Ovid, “Epistle”, in Metamorphosis, page 1:


mountainward

mountainward (comparative more mountainward, superlative most mountainward)

more mountainward (comparative)
most mountainward (superlative)

We dipped down to skirt a huge green polo field with another equally huge practice field beside it, soared again to the top of a hill and swung mountainward up a steep hill road of clean concrete that passed orange groves […]

1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 150:


prevaricatingly

prevaricatingly (comparative more prevaricatingly, superlative most prevaricatingly)

more prevaricatingly (comparative)
most prevaricatingly (superlative)


extraverbally

Outside of speech; by other means than speaking.


homorhythmically

(music) With the same rhythm throughout.


craniomandibularly

With regard to, or between, the skull and mandible


by guess or by golly

by guess or by gosh
by guess or by gosh#English


by guess or by God

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-by guess or by God.wav


turkeylike

turkeylike (comparative more turkeylike, superlative most turkeylike)

more turkeylike (comparative)
most turkeylike (superlative)


turkey-like

turkey-like (comparative more turkey-like, superlative most turkey-like)

more turkey-like (comparative)
most turkey-like (superlative)


aerogenously

an aerogenously transmitted bacterium

In an aerogenous fashion; through the air.


etically

etically (comparative more etically, superlative most etically)

more etically (comparative)
most etically (superlative)


emically

emically (comparative more emically, superlative most emically)

more emically (comparative)
most emically (superlative)


inacceptably

inacceptably (comparative more inacceptably, superlative most inacceptably)

more inacceptably (comparative)
most inacceptably (superlative)


Germanly

Germanly (comparative more Germanly, superlative most Germanly)

more Germanly (comparative)
most Germanly (superlative)

In a German manner; in a way characteristic of Germans.


Britishly

Britishly (comparative more Britishly, superlative most Britishly)

more Britishly (comparative)
most Britishly (superlative)

In a British manner; in a way characteristic of the British.


Japanesely

Japanesely (comparative more Japanesely, superlative most Japanesely)

more Japanesely (comparative)
most Japanesely (superlative)

In a Japanese manner; in a way characteristic of Japan.


Spanishly

Spanishly (comparative more Spanishly, superlative most Spanishly)

more Spanishly (comparative)
most Spanishly (superlative)

In a Spanish manner; in a way characteristic of Spaniards.


pacily

pacily (comparative more pacily, superlative most pacily)

more pacily (comparative)
most pacily (superlative)


pacifyingly

pacifyingly (comparative more pacifyingly, superlative most pacifyingly)

more pacifyingly (comparative)
most pacifyingly (superlative)


sparsedly

sparsedly (comparative more sparsedly, superlative most sparsedly)

more sparsedly (comparative)
most sparsedly (superlative)


beckoningly

beckoningly (comparative more beckoningly, superlative most beckoningly)

more beckoningly (comparative)
most beckoningly (superlative)

So as to beckon or call near; enticingly.


Chinesely

Chinesely (comparative more Chinesely, superlative most Chinesely)

more Chinesely (comparative)
most Chinesely (superlative)

A Chinese sun above our heads,
And Chinese waves below,
And Chinese breezes all around,
How Chinesely they blow!

1836, The American Monthly Magazine, volume VII, page 287:

In a Chinese manner, in a way characteristic of China.


Americanly

Americanly (comparative more Americanly, superlative most Americanly)

more Americanly (comparative)
most Americanly (superlative)

They mostly wore the skirts and hats of Paris, and if the scene of the fountain was Arabically oriental the promenade was almost Americanly occidental.

1913, William Dean Howells, Familiar Spanish Travels:

Once all experience is finally reduced to marketable image, once the receiving user of user-friendly receivers can break from the coffle and choose freely, Americanly, from an Americanly infinite variety of moving images hardly distinguishable from real-life images, and can then choose further just how he wishes to store, enhance, edit, recombine, and present those images to himself in the privacy of his very own home and skull, then TV's ironic, totalitarian grip on the American psychic cojones will be broken.!!!

1997 [1990], David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:

In an American manner; in a way characteristic of Americans.


Europeanly

Europeanly (comparative more Europeanly, superlative most Europeanly)

more Europeanly (comparative)
most Europeanly (superlative)

In a manner which is European or in a way that is characteristic of the Europeans.


diseasedly

diseasedly (comparative more diseasedly, superlative most diseasedly)

more diseasedly (comparative)
most diseasedly (superlative)


antipsychotically

antipsychotically (comparative more antipsychotically, superlative most antipsychotically)

more antipsychotically (comparative)
most antipsychotically (superlative)

antipsychotically active compounds

Oestrogens act antipsychotically.

In an antipsychotic manner; with antipsychotic effect.


abob

Afloat; bouncing on the surface of a liquid.


gazingly

gazingly (comparative more gazingly, superlative most gazingly)

more gazingly (comparative)
most gazingly (superlative)


winily

winily (comparative more winily, superlative most winily)

more winily (comparative)
most winily (superlative)


moralizingly

moralizingly (comparative more moralizingly, superlative most moralizingly)

more moralizingly (comparative)
most moralizingly (superlative)

He sat himself down in an arbor, and looked moralizingly over the initials, the dates, and the witticisms, that hands, long since mouldering, have consigned to the admiration of posterity.

1840, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The Flower Basket; Or, A Selection of Interesting Stories, page 79:


deceleratingly

deceleratingly (comparative more deceleratingly, superlative most deceleratingly)

more deceleratingly (comparative)
most deceleratingly (superlative)

Such a dome could then be retrorocketed to subside deceleratingly into the Earth's atmosphere, within which it will lower only slowly, due to its extremely low comprehensive specific gravity and its vast webbing surface, permitting it to be aimingly-landed slowly, very much like an air-floatable dandelion seed ball […]

1983, R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking:

It disappears between t = ±1, appears again as a spherical point at t = 1 and then, via Equation 2, it deceleratingly expands exclusively in the ±x directions as t increases in value.

2007, Gerald Lebau, A Flower for Einstein, page 178:

(rare, nonstandard) In a decelerating manner.


stomatologically

With reference to stomatological matters


exactamundo

From exact + -amundo as an intensifier. Popularized by the character Fonzie on the sitcom Happy Days.

'Exactamundo.

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 1017:

Since I am a writer, I can be more concerned with more important things like writing a sentence until I get it right, because I can't seem to get it exactamundo, and until I get it exactamundo, I can't exactly go on to the next sentence

2002 November 25, Nathan Leslie, Rants & Raves, PublishAmerica, →ISBN, →OL, page 110:

Exactamundo! Well ... almost exactamundo.

2010 July 16, Ralph Raab, The Gutenberg Gambit: The Second Adventure from the Biblio Files, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL:


peckishly

peckishly (comparative more peckishly, superlative most peckishly)

more peckishly (comparative)
most peckishly (superlative)


cryptanalytically

By means of, or in terms of, cryptanalysis.


uncommittedly

uncommittedly (comparative more uncommittedly, superlative most uncommittedly)

more uncommittedly (comparative)
most uncommittedly (superlative)


chortlingly

chortlingly (comparative more chortlingly, superlative most chortlingly)

more chortlingly (comparative)
most chortlingly (superlative)


janitorially

janitorially (comparative more janitorially, superlative most janitorially)

more janitorially (comparative)
most janitorially (superlative)

a bunch of keys hanging janitorially at his belt

In a janitorial manner or capacity; in the fashion of a janitor.


like a bump on a log

Jack just sat there like a bump on a log.

(simile) Idly, listlessly, or uselessly.


uncustomarily

uncustomarily (comparative more uncustomarily, superlative most uncustomarily)

more uncustomarily (comparative)
most uncustomarily (superlative)


shrillingly

shrillingly (comparative more shrillingly, superlative most shrillingly)

more shrillingly (comparative)
most shrillingly (superlative)


mucosally

mucosally transmitted HIV


tweece

(dialectal or humorous) Alternative form of twice


'umbly

'umbly (comparative more 'umbly, superlative most 'umbly)

more 'umbly (comparative)
most 'umbly (superlative)

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


'orribly

'orribly (comparative more 'orribly, superlative most 'orribly)

more 'orribly (comparative)
most 'orribly (superlative)


conspecifically

In a conspecific manner; within the same species.


motheringly

motheringly (comparative more motheringly, superlative most motheringly)

more motheringly (comparative)
most motheringly (superlative)

In a mothering manner; maternally; so as to coddle.


cyberspatially

cyberspatially (comparative more cyberspatially, superlative most cyberspatially)

more cyberspatially (comparative)
most cyberspatially (superlative)

In a cyberspatial sense; in terms of, or by means of, cyberspace.


transpicuously

transpicuously (comparative more transpicuously, superlative most transpicuously)

more transpicuously (comparative)
most transpicuously (superlative)


scuzzily

scuzzily (comparative more scuzzily, superlative most scuzzily)

more scuzzily (comparative)
most scuzzily (superlative)


selly

selly (comparative sellier or more selly, superlative selliest or most selly)

sellier (comparative)
more selly (comparative)
selliest (superlative)
most selly (superlative)

From Middle English selly, selly, sellich, from Old English sellīċ, seldlīċ (“rare, strange, wondrous, extraordinary, wonderful; having unusually good qualities, excellent, admirable; select, better, superior, choice”), from Proto-Germanic *seldalīkaz, equivalent to seld + -ly. Cognate with Scots selly, silly (“approved, good, worthy”), Old Saxon seldlīk (“rare, wonderful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (sildaleiks, “wonderful”).

cog

His brother was […] selly sick and sore unsound.

1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wonderfully, wondrously.


parietally

(anatomy) With regard to other parietal structures.


semotactically

With regard to, or by means of semotactics


postically

en-adv

postically (comparative more postically, superlative most postically)

more postically (comparative)
most postically (superlative)

The laterally compressed shoots with broad, unlobed, translucent leaves extending beyond the stem postically as well as antically[…]

1999, Jean Annette Paton, The liverwort flora of the British Isles, page 291:


submaximally

submaximally (comparative more submaximally, superlative most submaximally)

more submaximally (comparative)
most submaximally (superlative)

In a submaximal manner; less than maximally


inurbanely

inurbanely (comparative more inurbanely, superlative most inurbanely)

more inurbanely (comparative)
most inurbanely (superlative)


unsilenceably

unsilenceably (comparative more unsilenceably, superlative most unsilenceably)

more unsilenceably (comparative)
most unsilenceably (superlative)


sympatrically

sympatrically (comparative more sympatrically, superlative most sympatrically)

more sympatrically (comparative)
most sympatrically (superlative)

(ecology) in the same or overlapping geographical areas


everwhich

From ever + which. Formed similarly to the older words each, every and German irgendwelche.


everwhere

From ever + where. Formed similarly to the older words each, every and German irgendwo.

Everwhere he hid it, he hid it good.


everwhere

Some dialects and informal speakers shorten every to ever; see ever for more.

Everwhere you look these days, you see ads.


multivalently

multivalently (comparative more multivalently, superlative most multivalently)

more multivalently (comparative)
most multivalently (superlative)


dailie

I dailie and hourelie offend in thought, word, and deed, in a relapſe by mine owne weakneſſe and wilfulneſſe, my bonus Genius, my good protecting angel is gone, I am falne from that I was, or would bee, worſe and worſe, […]

1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Cure of Deſpaire by Phyſick, good counſell, comforts, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 3, subsection 6, page 707:


now-now

(South Africa) right now; immediately; very soon


entwiningly

entwiningly (comparative more entwiningly, superlative most entwiningly)

more entwiningly (comparative)
most entwiningly (superlative)


coordinatedly

In a coordinated manner (by acting together)


acceleratedly

acceleratedly (comparative more acceleratedly, superlative most acceleratedly)

more acceleratedly (comparative)
most acceleratedly (superlative)


fizzingly

fizzingly (comparative more fizzingly, superlative most fizzingly)

more fizzingly (comparative)
most fizzingly (superlative)


familistically

familistically (comparative more familistically, superlative most familistically)

more familistically (comparative)
most familistically (superlative)


seelily

seelily (comparative more seelily, superlative most seelily)

more seelily (comparative)
most seelily (superlative)

(obsolete) In a seely, or silly, manner.


familywise

(statistics) In terms of a family of related inferences.


antipodally

I have said that I was at once relieved and made uneasy, but this expresses only crudely the overtones of diverse and largely subconscious feelings which comprised both the relief and the uneasiness. To begin with, the thing was so antipodally at variance with the whole chain of horrors preceding it—the change of mood from stark terror to cool complacency and even exultation was so unheralded, lightning-like, and complete!

1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness:


homeotropically

The change in birefringence changes the state of polarization of the light sufficiently to allow the light to pass through the second polarizer passes unaffected through regions of the homeotropically aligned liquid crystal since only n_⊥ is encountered.

In the case of homeotropically treated phase change dichroic LCDs, it quickly decays from 100% to <5% level instantaneously and then merges from 5% to zero level reasonably fast exhibiting almost no memory.

1992, B Bahadur, Liquid Crystals — Applications and Uses, volume 3:

Once gathered, leave the sample alone for few minutes, and hence a sample of clear homeotropically aligned state is obtained.

2016, Salah Obayya, Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics:


submarginally

In a submarginal manner; below a margin.


blithesomely

blithesomely (comparative more blithesomely, superlative most blithesomely)

more blithesomely (comparative)
most blithesomely (superlative)

Unwanted tears rolled down my cheeks and I yearned for a mother's love. Then all was silent, save a bird that chirped as it sat on a box tree nearby. It twittered and twittered so blithesomely, so gleefully, that I brushed away the tears.

1922, L. M. Zimmerman, For Love's Sake, page 130:


nonnormally

(statistics) Not showing a normal distribution


hand over hand

Max went up the rigging hand over hand, and brought his red head with a bump against the base of Harry’s back.

1849, Herman Melville, “chapter 50”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

(nautical) by passing the hands alternately one before or above the other, especially with rope

In this way he made money hand over hand; became a rich and mighty man, and exalted his cocked hat upon change.

1824, Washington Irving, The Devil and Tom Walker:

He was making money, hand over hand, then; and he never stopped speculating and improving till he'd scraped together three or four hundred thousand dollars

1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes, chapter 11:


EOR

Rep neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more

2011, Hannah Fettig, Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts For The Ones You Love, page 44:

(knitting) Every other row; every other round.


pictorally

pictorally (comparative more pictorally, superlative most pictorally)

more pictorally (comparative)
most pictorally (superlative)


metachromatically

metachromatically (comparative more metachromatically, superlative most metachromatically)

more metachromatically (comparative)
most metachromatically (superlative)


metrosexually

metrosexually (comparative more metrosexually, superlative most metrosexually)

more metrosexually (comparative)
most metrosexually (superlative)


roupily

roupily (comparative more roupily, superlative most roupily)

more roupily (comparative)
most roupily (superlative)

Afterwards he went home, wrote to Jenny Patterson and 'sang a lot in spite of the cold. Very roupily.'

1887, A Bernard Shaw, edited by A. M. Gibbs, Diary, →ISBN, page 293:

Chanticleers in the town crowed roupily and ruefully for months thereafter. The bridegroom might have stepped over the wall to the wedding chamber or walked […]

1907, Neil Munro, chapter XXXI, in Bud: A Novel, Harper & Brothers, page 297:

A hand stroked once at Peggy's leg and it was the hand of Popeye, the sailor man, who muttered roupily, "Olive Oyl, you is my goil."

1997, Richard Matheson, “Dance of the Dead”, in I Am Legend, →ISBN, page 213:

In a manner as if affected with roup. In a hoarse or husky manner.


papyrologically

In a papyrological manner or in terms of papyrology.


doxastically

doxastically (comparative more doxastically, superlative most doxastically)

more doxastically (comparative)
most doxastically (superlative)


varicosely

varicosely (comparative more varicosely, superlative most varicosely)

more varicosely (comparative)
most varicosely (superlative)

varicosely thickened


rheologically

rheologically complex fluids


ack emma

(British, military) a.m.; in the morning


soly

Seeing her selfe all soly succourlesse.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

For Venus selfe doth soly couples seeme, / Both male and female through commixture ioynd.

1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


rhombically

rhombically (comparative more rhombically, superlative most rhombically)

more rhombically (comparative)
most rhombically (superlative)


roentgenographically

By means of roentgenography; radiographically.


strokingly

strokingly (comparative more strokingly, superlative most strokingly)

more strokingly (comparative)
most strokingly (superlative)


intuitionally

intuitionally (comparative more intuitionally, superlative most intuitionally)

more intuitionally (comparative)
most intuitionally (superlative)


solstitially

In a solstitial manner; relating to solstices.


heavenlily

heavenlily (comparative more heavenlily, superlative most heavenlily)

more heavenlily (comparative)
most heavenlily (superlative)

Then Miss Roach – this slave of her taskmaster, solitude – had to choose which bed she was going to sleep in, and chose the one nearest the window, and then got into bed and stared at the ceiling, and then decided that they were heavenlily comfortable beds anyway and that was all that mattered[…]

2012, Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude:


neist

From Middle English nest, neste, from Old English nēst, nēist, variants of Old English nīehst (“nearest, next”). More at next.

The bonniest lass that ye meet neist,
 Gie her a kiss an' a' that


paravant

From Middle French paravant, from par + avant.


tremorously

tremorously (comparative more tremorously, superlative most tremorously)

more tremorously (comparative)
most tremorously (superlative)


seeingly

seeingly (comparative more seeingly, superlative most seeingly)

more seeingly (comparative)
most seeingly (superlative)


expecially

expecially (comparative more expecially, superlative most expecially)

more expecially (comparative)
most expecially (superlative)


nanomechanically

From nano- + mechanically or from nanomechanical + -ly.


spacely

To realize a NTS one must have a spacely extended clock.

1982, Stefan Marinov, Classical Physics: Mathematical apparatus - Page ix:

For the elucidation of steric relations of the GABA interaction with receptors and with metabolical enzymes 3-aminocyclobutane carboxylic acid was synthetized, which is a spacely restricted GABA analog (Safanda and Sobotka, 1982).

1985, Univerzita J.E. Purkyně v Brně. Lékařská fakulta, Sborník prací Lékařské fakulty v Brně - Volume 92 - Page 91:

Geological surveys, (FlC, 2000) support the idea of a spacely restricted leakage from an underlying aquifer system being the reason for this.

2002, Water and Land Development - 2002 - Page 21

It is assumed that a general mixed state ρ is given in the sector A and the problem is to “send it” to the spacely separated sector C.

2010, Andrzej Kwiecien, Piotr Gaj, Piotr Stera, Computer Networks:


psychometrically

With reference to, or by means of, psychometrics.


abs. feb.

(medicine) Abbreviation of absente febre; in the absence of fever


rustily

rustily (comparative more rustily, superlative most rustily)

more rustily (comparative)
most rustily (superlative)


possessingly

possessingly (comparative more possessingly, superlative most possessingly)

more possessingly (comparative)
most possessingly (superlative)


puffily

puffily (comparative more puffily, superlative most puffily)

more puffily (comparative)
most puffily (superlative)


quizzingly

quizzingly (comparative more quizzingly, superlative most quizzingly)

more quizzingly (comparative)
most quizzingly (superlative)


unpitiably

unpitiably (comparative more unpitiably, superlative most unpitiably)

more unpitiably (comparative)
most unpitiably (superlative)


placably

placably (comparative more placably, superlative most placably)

more placably (comparative)
most placably (superlative)


hallowedly

hallowedly (comparative more hallowedly, superlative most hallowedly)

more hallowedly (comparative)
most hallowedly (superlative)

So hallowedly have ye fulfilled your part, My pride repudiates ev'n the sigh that blends With Poland's name — name written on my heart.

1837, Thomas Campbell, The poetical works of Thomas Campbell - Page 230:

At first, during regeneration in spirit, it finds its way to an enchanted wood, and then, arriving at integration, it breaks into the open and discovers a hallowedly resplendent world.

1994, Michael Washburn, Transpersonal Psych in Psyc - Page 301:

The Ground of Being begins to take on the sense, in Washburn's beautiful phrase, of the self's own "hallowedly resplendent home."

2000, Kathleen D. Singh, Grace in Dying:

She shall be with me, sweetly and hallowedly, for the time it takes for me to fill these pots.

2006, Carol Desjarlais, Shhhhhh: A Creation Story - Page 246:

In a hallowed, sacred, or solemn manner; sacredly; solemnly.


hallowly

hallowly (comparative more hallowly, superlative most hallowly)

more hallowly (comparative)
most hallowly (superlative)

Apparently a corruption of hallowedly, equivalent to hallow + -ly.

I looked up—the stars were dimly shining about my head, and the coldness of the wind, which "blew hallowly by," quickly reminded me-that I was in the open air!

1822, The Literary melange; or, Weekly register of literature and the arts - Page 212

But if it were not so, if I could find No love in all this world for comforting, Nor any path but hallowly did ring, Where 'dust to dust,' the love from life disjoined; [...]

1859, Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey, The Mother's magazine:

By thee unhallowed, the loud acclamation Of the vain world but peals discordantly; The tongue of fame, the poet's adulation, Fall on the untuned heart, all hallowly; As wind o'er unstrung lyres makes wild vibration, [...]

1863, John Francis Waller, Poems - Page 183, published 1837:

"Yes," he said hallowly. "Yes, I'll rest a little while."

1979, The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction, volume 58, numbers 1-3, page 89:

"[...] The phrase has become worse than hallowly archaic; moderns find it downright offensive."

1992, James Hugh Toner, The Sword and the Cross:

[...] we live side by side i too, am struggling to find myself i am too far away. duplicated hours unreel and blonk hallowly / days, abysmally conceived.

2003, Alan Finaly, Siphiwe Ka Ngwenya, Insight: six South African poets - Page 92:

In a sacred, hallowed, or solemn manner; solemnly; sacredly.


autonymically

In an autonymic manner; in the manner of an autonym; indigenously.


hermaphroditically

For nature hates that any principle should breed, so to speak, hermaphroditically, but will give to each an help meet for it which shall cross it and be the undoing of it; as in the case of descent with modification, of which the essence would appear to be that every offspring should resemble its parents, and yet, at the same time, that no offspring should resemble its parents.

1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., pages 28–29:

In normal sexual reproduction, whether performed by separate sexes or hermaphroditically, the two functions are generally combined in a pair.

1979, Adriano Zanetti, The World of Insects, Abbeville Press (1979), page 86

This cleft sentence in turn cleaves narrative genre: Baré's story, formerly an account of loyal masculine servitude, now proceeds as a feminine sentimental narrative, yet one in which she figures, hermaphroditically, as both distressed female and the masculine hero who rescues her.

2004, Vanessa Smith, “Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach”, in Bernhard Klein, Gesa Mackenthun, editors, Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean, Routledge, →ISBN, page 40:


unstressfully

unstressfully (comparative more unstressfully, superlative most unstressfully)

more unstressfully (comparative)
most unstressfully (superlative)

In an unstressful manner; without stress.


swack

swack (comparative more swack, superlative most swack)

more swack (comparative)
most swack (superlative)

Considered dialect by Wright, but now widespread. Scottish National Dictionary proposes an origin in Old Scots (Middle English) swak ("to throw violently"). Compare Scots swak, swack (“to throw with violent force, dash", also "a hard blow or whack”). Compare also Middle Dutch swacken (“to shake, wave”).

Pulling away, Brennan felt his shin swack against Glass's shin, but Glass kept moving.

1987, Joseph Monninger, Second Season, page 179:

Seems to me to be suffin' funny about this 'ere job, doubt but yer an artful young dorg,” and the next moment one of his heavy boots come swack up agin the seat of my trousers.

2009, George Baldry, Lilias Rider Haggard, The Rabbit Skin Cap, page 129:

A second baseball bat swack against the window and I saw a spider web of cracks with a dense opaque nucleus.

2011, Richard Farnsworth, Gift of the Bouda:


aburton

From a- (“in”) + burton (“athwartship”).


ab utili

Learned borrowing from Latin ab utili (“from utility”)


ALARP

(risk management) Initialism of as low as reasonably practicable.


personly

en-adv

personly (comparative more personly, superlative most personly)

more personly (comparative)
most personly (superlative)

From person + -ly or as a variation or personally. Compare Middle English personely.

If the executor or administrator resides without the county, absconds or conceals himself, so that citation cannot be personly served, and shall neglect to render an account within thirty days after having been committed, …

Personly I will not express no opinion as some of my best friends is umpires, but will merely state that I started out of the press box the instant it was over and by the aid of a powerful candle which I genally^([sic]) always carry to world serious games [...]

1956, Donald Elder, Ring Lardner: a biography - Page 174:

Speaking for myself personly I never felt better in my life and you know what that means Al.

1997, Ring Lardner, Jonathan Yardley, Selected Stories:

I dont^([sic]) know how bad his irons will have to get before he will think they have went^([sic]) wrong on him but personly if I made some of the tee shots he made today I would certainly consider some kind of change of weppons.^([sic])

2012, Jeff Silverman, Classic Golf Stories:

(nonstandard) Alternative form of personally


unaggressively

unaggressively (comparative more unaggressively, superlative most unaggressively)

more unaggressively (comparative)
most unaggressively (superlative)


unassuredly

unassuredly (comparative more unassuredly, superlative most unassuredly)

more unassuredly (comparative)
most unassuredly (superlative)

In a way that is not assured; without assurance or confidence.


unoptimistically

unoptimistically (comparative more unoptimistically, superlative most unoptimistically)

more unoptimistically (comparative)
most unoptimistically (superlative)


unneutrally

unneutrally (comparative more unneutrally, superlative most unneutrally)

more unneutrally (comparative)
most unneutrally (superlative)


unpredictively

unpredictively (comparative more unpredictively, superlative most unpredictively)

more unpredictively (comparative)
most unpredictively (superlative)

In a way that cannot be predicted reliably; unpredictably.


unmeltingly

unmeltingly (comparative more unmeltingly, superlative most unmeltingly)

more unmeltingly (comparative)
most unmeltingly (superlative)

(sometimes figurative) Without melting or softening.


unpacifically

unpacifically (comparative more unpacifically, superlative most unpacifically)

more unpacifically (comparative)
most unpacifically (superlative)


unlovably

unlovably (comparative more unlovably, superlative most unlovably)

more unlovably (comparative)
most unlovably (superlative)

One night at a party at Irene and Bob Lowry's home Denis Glover, visiting town, was at his most unlovably provoking.

1987, Greville Texidor, Kendrick Smithyman, In Fifteen Minutes You Can Say a Lot: Selected Fiction, page 18:

When you're in a “good mood,” it's easy to get along with others, to enjoy their company, to love them even when they are behaving unlovably.

2001, Lucia Capacchione, The Power of Your Other Hand:


orgulously

orgulously (comparative more orgulously, superlative most orgulously)

more orgulously (comparative)
most orgulously (superlative)


unprovably

unprovably (comparative more unprovably, superlative most unprovably)

more unprovably (comparative)
most unprovably (superlative)


unrefutably

unrefutably (comparative more unrefutably, superlative most unrefutably)

more unrefutably (comparative)
most unrefutably (superlative)


unrapidly

unrapidly (comparative more unrapidly, superlative most unrapidly)

more unrapidly (comparative)
most unrapidly (superlative)


unreprovably

unreprovably (comparative more unreprovably, superlative most unreprovably)

more unreprovably (comparative)
most unreprovably (superlative)


unquiveringly

unquiveringly (comparative more unquiveringly, superlative most unquiveringly)

more unquiveringly (comparative)
most unquiveringly (superlative)


unquibblingly

unquibblingly (comparative more unquibblingly, superlative most unquibblingly)

more unquibblingly (comparative)
most unquibblingly (superlative)


unrepetitively

unrepetitively (comparative more unrepetitively, superlative most unrepetitively)

more unrepetitively (comparative)
most unrepetitively (superlative)


unreprovingly

unreprovingly (comparative more unreprovingly, superlative most unreprovingly)

more unreprovingly (comparative)
most unreprovingly (superlative)


unrespectably

unrespectably (comparative more unrespectably, superlative most unrespectably)

more unrespectably (comparative)
most unrespectably (superlative)


unrevealingly

unrevealingly (comparative more unrevealingly, superlative most unrevealingly)

more unrevealingly (comparative)
most unrevealingly (superlative)


unspecifiably

unspecifiably (comparative more unspecifiably, superlative most unspecifiably)

more unspecifiably (comparative)
most unspecifiably (superlative)

an unspecifiably large number


unrevengefully

unrevengefully (comparative more unrevengefully, superlative most unrevengefully)

more unrevengefully (comparative)
most unrevengefully (superlative)


unprovenly

I am satisfied that there are many convicts in this prison unprovenly or unjustly confined, and that should have relief.

1881, Texas. Superintendent of State Penitentiaries, Report, page 155:

Unlike Judson, who started life as a violinist and claimed (unprovenly) to have played the American premiere of Richard Strauss's sonata, Wilford never studied music and could, by some accounts, not read a simple piano score.

1991, Norman Lebrecht, The maestro myth: great conductors in pursuit of power, page 308:


unrestrictively

unrestrictively (comparative more unrestrictively, superlative most unrestrictively)

more unrestrictively (comparative)
most unrestrictively (superlative)


mountainwards

mountainwards (comparative more mountainwards, superlative most mountainwards)

more mountainwards (comparative)
most mountainwards (superlative)


pants-shittingly

pants-shittingly (comparative more pants-shittingly, superlative most pants-shittingly)

more pants-shittingly (comparative)
most pants-shittingly (superlative)

I convinced myself with every passing peaceful moment that things were getting better, that the worst was over. In that, I was pants-shittingly wrong.

2009, David Wong, John Dies at the End, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 41:

These guys literally tear into the house lurching toward the children with their arms maniacally in front of them — a pants-shittingly scary Night of the Living Dead reprisal that was not only hysterically antigovernment in its portrayal, but really not appropriate for any kind of movie marketed to children.

2011, David Sirota, Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now -- Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 86:

As a person who is absolutely terrified of snakes, I think I am perfectly positioned to comment on how terrifying king cobras are. The answer is pants-shittingly.

2012, Danny Vittore, Back the F*ck Up!: Wild Animals That Don't Give a Sh*t!, Krause Publications, →ISBN, page 85:

(slang, vulgar) In a manner, or to a degree, capable of causing one to soil oneself in fear; terrifyingly.


truistically

truistically (comparative more truistically, superlative most truistically)

more truistically (comparative)
most truistically (superlative)

In a truistic manner; as, or by, a truism.


smickly

smickly (comparative more smickly, superlative most smickly)

more smickly (comparative)
most smickly (superlative)

What's he that looks so smickly?

1656, John Ford, Thomas Dekker, The Sun's Darling:


apogeotropically

(botany) In an apogeotropic manner; of leaves and other botanical structures, in a manner that bends away from the ground.


cacophonically

cacophonically (comparative more cacophonically, superlative most cacophonically)

more cacophonically (comparative)
most cacophonically (superlative)

In a cacophonous manner; in a manner that produces harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.


monographically

We are now, of course, discussing publications of those conferences which are held repeatedly, since it can be assumed that publications of conferences which are held only once are handled monographically as a matter of course.

1989, Ellis Mount, The Role of Conference Literature in Sci-Tech Libraries, page 32:

In a monographic manner; in the manner of a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or group of subjects.


microelectromechanically

In microelectromechanical terms or context.


queerishly

queerishly (comparative more queerishly, superlative most queerishly)

more queerishly (comparative)
most queerishly (superlative)

(rare) In a manner that is somewhat queer.


brathly

brathly (comparative brathlier or more brathly, superlative brathliest or most brathly)

brathlier (comparative)
more brathly (comparative)
brathliest (superlative)
most brathly (superlative)

From Middle English brathly, brothly, braithly, equivalent to brath + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic bráðleg (“quickly, soon”).

(UK dialectal) Hastily; violently; fiercely; with fury.


honest to gods

"Honest to Gods, I didn't means to cry," he sobbed, his vast stomach heaving, […]

1957, Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals, page 273:

(rare) Approximate synonym or polytheistic equivalent of honest to God.


Islamically

Islamically (comparative more Islamically, superlative most Islamically)

more Islamically (comparative)
most Islamically (superlative)

Another financial issue attracting growing attention is whether capital gains on investments are Islamically acceptable.

1999, Jane I. Smith, Islam in America, page 135:

M&S said they will not label any of their Islamically slaughtered lamb as halal.

2010, Abul Taher, “Waitrose forced to ditch halal lamb from Prince of Wales' Duchy range”, in The Daily Mail:

In an Islamic manner; in a manner relating to, or comporting with, Islam.


parapsychologically

parapsychologically (comparative more parapsychologically, superlative most parapsychologically)

more parapsychologically (comparative)
most parapsychologically (superlative)

By means of, or in terms of, parapsychology.


exploitably

exploitably (comparative more exploitably, superlative most exploitably)

more exploitably (comparative)
most exploitably (superlative)

In a manner that is capable of being exploited.


TTTT

to tell the truth
to tell the truth#English

(Internet slang) Initialism of to tell the truth.


raw dog

From raw (“without a condom”) + dog out (“to approach someone sexually”).

af

I advise against going raw dog unless you are in a committed relationship and somewhat certain she is not screwing other guys, but if you do it raw then make sure you never ejaculate inside her, even if she is on the pill.

And she lets me fuck her raw dog now, and cum all up in her until her ears pop.

2009, Omar Tyree, Dirty Old Men (And Other Stories), Strebor Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 254:

[…] When you were eating my pussy and going raw dog in me, you wanted to hear every little thing I had to say. . . "

2010, Cydney Rax, Brothers and Wives, Three Rivers Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 23:

(slang, vulgar) Without a condom; bareback.


uncourageously

en-adv

uncourageously (comparative more uncourageously, superlative most uncourageously)

more uncourageously (comparative)
most uncourageously (superlative)


extorsively

extorsively (comparative more extorsively, superlative most extorsively)

more extorsively (comparative)
most extorsively (superlative)


syndepositionally

In a syndepositional fashion; by means of syndeposition.


arseling

From Middle English *arsling, from Old English earsling (“backwards, on the back”), equivalent to arse + -ling. Cognate with Dutch aarzeling, aarzelings, German ärschling, ärschlings.

inh

(UK dialectal, especially Scotland, East Anglia) Backwards.


arselong

Alteration (after headlong) of arseling, from Middle English *arsling, from Old English earsling (“backwards, on the back”), equivalent to arse + -ling. Cognate with Dutch aarzeling, aarzelings, German ärschling, ärschlings.

Heave they did, all unopposed, and tumbled arselong when the bar came about. Even as they rolled and cursed, the whistling petered; [...]

(UK dialectal) Backwards; on one's arse.


drainingly

en-adv

drainingly (comparative more drainingly, superlative most drainingly)

more drainingly (comparative)
most drainingly (superlative)

In a draining manner; so as to sap one's energy.


dystonically

dystonically (comparative more dystonically, superlative most dystonically)

more dystonically (comparative)
most dystonically (superlative)


unstudiedly

unstudiedly (comparative more unstudiedly, superlative most unstudiedly)

more unstudiedly (comparative)
most unstudiedly (superlative)

In an unstudied manner; spontaneously; unaffectedly.


mardily

mardily (comparative more mardily, superlative most mardily)

more mardily (comparative)
most mardily (superlative)

She pouts mardily, annoyed at being disbelieved.

2012, Marina Lewycka, Various Pets Alive and Dead:


convincedly

convincedly (comparative more convincedly, superlative most convincedly)

more convincedly (comparative)
most convincedly (superlative)

In a convinced manner; with belief or conviction.


tollingly

tollingly (comparative more tollingly, superlative most tollingly)

more tollingly (comparative)
most tollingly (superlative)

With a tolling sound; ringing solemnly like a large bell.


baft

baft (comparative more baft, superlative most baft)

more baft (comparative)
most baft (superlative)


flautando

flautando (comparative more flautando, superlative most flautando)

more flautando (comparative)
most flautando (superlative)


gratiously

gratiously (comparative more gratiously, superlative most gratiously)

more gratiously (comparative)
most gratiously (superlative)


colourimetrically

colourimetrically (comparative more colourimetrically, superlative most colourimetrically)

more colourimetrically (comparative)
most colourimetrically (superlative)


honourifically

honourifically (comparative more honourifically, superlative most honourifically)

more honourifically (comparative)
most honourifically (superlative)


darkliest

(literary, dated) superlative form of darkly: most darkly


deeplier

(literary, dated) comparative form of deeply: more deeply


darklier

(literary, dated) comparative form of darkly: more darkly


deepliest

(literary, dated) superlative form of deeply: most deeply


floorward

As she was on her approach to the hoop, taking that first Jordanesque liftoff step, her mouth guard fell floorward. Undeterred, she kept going up with the ball in her right hand.

2011, Robert Strauss, Daddy's Little Goalie, page 53:


sentenciously

sentenciously (comparative more sentenciously, superlative most sentenciously)

more sentenciously (comparative)
most sentenciously (superlative)


disanalogously

disanalogously (comparative more disanalogously, superlative most disanalogously)

more disanalogously (comparative)
most disanalogously (superlative)

In a disanalogous fashion; by disanalogy.


heptagonally

Loaded with plates, Richard scuttled past them and into the dining room, where they could see him frantically trying to redistribute the already-set table so that it would be divided heptagonally.

1964, Jeremy Larner, Drive, he said, page 91:


decagonally

Style upright, short, round, forming with the stigma a continuous clavate shaft equal to the limb; stigma decagonally fluted with shallow membranous ridges and alternately wider grooves[…]

1816, The Botanical Register, volume 2, page 119:


unbegrudgingly

unbegrudgingly (comparative more unbegrudgingly, superlative most unbegrudgingly)

more unbegrudgingly (comparative)
most unbegrudgingly (superlative)


whuffo

[Alabaster:] Shhh, Uncle Pogo! We is lookin' for the Easter Bunny.
[Pogo:] Whuffo you shushin' me? I isn't doin' nothin' but breathin'!

1952, Walt Kelly, Pogo, 6 April 1952 strip

(US, colloquial, chiefly Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of what for.


back and fore

Back and forth; from one place to another and back again.


diabetically

diabetically prone rats

diabetically blind people


semeiologically

semeiologically (comparative more semeiologically, superlative most semeiologically)

more semeiologically (comparative)
most semeiologically (superlative)


unexplainedly

unexplainedly (comparative more unexplainedly, superlative most unexplainedly)

more unexplainedly (comparative)
most unexplainedly (superlative)


pharmacoeconomically

pharmacoeconomically motivated studies

pharmacoeconomically favorable end products

In a pharmacoeconomic manner or context.


autoproteolytically

In terms of, or by means of, autoproteolysis.


autoethnographically

From autoethnographical + -ly or autoethnographic + -ally.

In terms of, or by means of, autoethnography.


unsocialistically

unsocialistically (comparative more unsocialistically, superlative most unsocialistically)

more unsocialistically (comparative)
most unsocialistically (superlative)

In an unsocialistic way; contrary to socialism.


skitteringly

skitteringly (comparative more skitteringly, superlative most skitteringly)

more skitteringly (comparative)
most skitteringly (superlative)

So as to skitter; with rapid, twitchy motion.


unheedily

unheedily (comparative more unheedily, superlative most unheedily)

more unheedily (comparative)
most unheedily (superlative)

some lost great hope unheedily, / Which never they recover might againe […].

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


any road

(Northern England dialect) Alternative form of anyroad


restitutively

restitutively (comparative more restitutively, superlative most restitutively)

more restitutively (comparative)
most restitutively (superlative)


escalatingly

escalatingly (comparative more escalatingly, superlative most escalatingly)

more escalatingly (comparative)
most escalatingly (superlative)

However, this can also cause increasing problems for those not prepared to think differently and creatively in an escalatingly competitive and crowded global marketplace.

2005, Ian Fillis, Creative Marketing For SMEs, page i:


back in day

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-back in day.wav

(chiefly African-American Vernacular, Yorkshire, nonstandard) Alternative form of back in the day


unrebelliously

unrebelliously (comparative more unrebelliously, superlative most unrebelliously)

more unrebelliously (comparative)
most unrebelliously (superlative)


decliningly

decliningly (comparative more decliningly, superlative most decliningly)

more decliningly (comparative)
most decliningly (superlative)

So as to decline, or give a negative answer to a proposal.

In a way that declines, slopes downward or decreases.


retrievably

retrievably (comparative more retrievably, superlative most retrievably)

more retrievably (comparative)
most retrievably (superlative)

retrievably stored nuclear waste


unvulgarly

unvulgarly (comparative more unvulgarly, superlative most unvulgarly)

more unvulgarly (comparative)
most unvulgarly (superlative)


honest to goodness

honest to goodness (comparative more honest to goodness, superlative most honest to goodness)

more honest to goodness (comparative)
most honest to goodness (superlative)

Honest; truly, really; used to emphasize that a statement is true.


psychologistically

psychologistically (comparative more psychologistically, superlative most psychologistically)

more psychologistically (comparative)
most psychologistically (superlative)


down south

In the southern part of an area, country etc.


up north

She spent a few years up north.

In the northern part of an area, country etc.


hegemonically

hegemonically (comparative more hegemonically, superlative most hegemonically)

more hegemonically (comparative)
most hegemonically (superlative)

Brodber uses the most commonly recognized tropes of Caribbean discourse—and, to borrow a term from Gates's Signifying Monkey, " tropes the tropes" of exile, self-hatred, self-alienation, and longing for the sought after prestige of privileged white Otherness, elevating elsewhereism, accepting as natural a hegemonically imposed sense of historylessness, split subjectivity, dependence and psychic fragmentation.

2006, June E. Roberts, Reading Erna Brodber, page 58:


tectonophysically

In terms of, or by means of, tectonophysics.


unknowledgeably

unknowledgeably (comparative more unknowledgeably, superlative most unknowledgeably)

more unknowledgeably (comparative)
most unknowledgeably (superlative)


arbitrally

arbitrally-determined compensation


antiscripturally

antiscripturally (comparative more antiscripturally, superlative most antiscripturally)

more antiscripturally (comparative)
most antiscripturally (superlative)


praxiologically

praxiologically (comparative more praxiologically, superlative most praxiologically)

more praxiologically (comparative)
most praxiologically (superlative)


denotatively

denotatively (comparative more denotatively, superlative most denotatively)

more denotatively (comparative)
most denotatively (superlative)

We use words either denotatively or connotatively; denotatively when a word is used as a mere mark or sign to point out which thing of all possible things we mean to speak of, and connotatively when it is used to point out a supposed characteristic of the thing denoted.

1878, Shadworth Hollway Hodgson, The philosophy of reflection, volume 1, page 9:

"Risks," in other words, may appear ominous and act as a barrier to thought about the message. In sum, to invoke more conscious thought about a verbal message, message designers should select more denotatively specific language.

1995, Designing Health Messages: Approaches from Communication Theory, →ISBN, page 18:


hell-bent for leather

Apparently a blend of hell-bent + hell-for-leather, though sometimes said to have been initially applied to animals which behaved poorly as if they were bent on being turned into leather.

[...] his Supply Officer was hell bent for leather to torpedo his tour as the Commanding Officer and wanted explanations, or at least reassurances.

2003, Edward Landers, Smooth, →ISBN, page 510:

She had been through several programs, to no avail; nothing worked, she was hell-bent for leather, she was intent on hurting herself.

2013, Clem Martini, One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years, →ISBN, page 52:

(Behaving) determinedly recklessly, in a manner that lacks restraint.

“Gosh!” said Marking. “Where the hell did the Japs get that? [...Was that] a Jap plane? God damn, it was fast.” And I agreed, “It was hell-bent for leather some place.”

2009, Yay Panlilio, The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:

Synonym of hell-for-leather (“very fast”)

It had been quite some piece of road from an eastern region of Arizona to SOD, but Jethro was hell-bent for leather. His desire for a meeting with Zelda Klemp had taken him over. He'd been driving since late the previous night ...

2000, Angus Wynn, Mojave Fringe, →ISBN, page 95:

I was determined not to be a back seat driver. I said nothing. I waited patiently for her to stop hugging the berm to keep distance from fast moving traffic. I waited for three thousand miles. She was hell bent for leather to get to our destination, ...

2006, Jeanne Elizabeth Siphron, Fit to be crazy: living with lithium and manic depression, →ISBN:

Synonym of hell-bent (“(recklessly) determined”)


in puris naturalibus

Borrowed from Latin in puris naturalibus.

Boyles crouched against the wall in puris naturalibus, while Ned wrapped the magician's cape around his bare legs and flagged down the coach.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 49:


easiliest

Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find / The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare / Might easiliest harbour in?

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

December 15 1665, William Temple, letter to Sir William Coventry
My presumptions may be great with my friends, but they are the easiliest checked of any man's alive.

Inquire what be the stones that do easiliest melt

a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals:

(literary, dated) superlative form of easily (adverb): most easily


nonglobally

Select a nonglobally routed prefix, such as the Test-Net (rfc:3330) 192.0.2.0/24, to use as the next hop of any attacked prefix to be blackholed.

2005, Victor Oppleman, Oliver Friedrichs, Brett Watson, Extreme exploits: advanced defenses against hardcore hacks, page 186:


otorhinolaryngologically

Only 234 (30.1%) were examined otorhinolaryngologically.

1983, Haven Grace, Professional Seminar Consultants, Advance study, Italian-American clinical study program, page 132:

Although the volume of prescriptions for otorhinolaryngologically related diseases is high, and probably far too high in children, the actual range of drugs used is small.

1991, Donald Barltrop, Martin J. Brueton, Paediatric therapeutics: principles and practice, page 303:

In terms of, or by means of, otorhinolaryngology.


unloyally

unloyally (comparative more unloyally, superlative most unloyally)

more unloyally (comparative)
most unloyally (superlative)

the child of my said kinsman, that had before so unloyally offended me

1759, William Robertson, History of Scotland:


liftingly

liftingly (comparative more liftingly, superlative most liftingly)

more liftingly (comparative)
most liftingly (superlative)


kerflop

She sat down kerflop.


noncomittally

noncomittally (comparative more noncomittally, superlative most noncomittally)

more noncomittally (comparative)
most noncomittally (superlative)

'Perhaps,' he says noncomittally. 'Would you write that Vergil down, so I can learn it myself?'

1999, Sandi Hall, Rumours of Dreams, Spinifex Press, →ISBN, page 51:

"That could be," he said, noncomittally.

2007, Weston P. Hatfield, The Govenor's Choice, Vantage Press, →ISBN, page 250:

Mila didn't say anything, and Tal likewise kept silent. He simply nodded noncomittally, the way she'd seen a hundred cops and another hundred lawyers do.

2009, Cat Adams, Magic's Design, Tor, →ISBN, page 216:


ufologically

Very briefly described, my approach is to take whatever is anomalous, paranormal, or extraordinary and first determine whether or not it appears to be ufologically related. Then I rely on my intuition.

2005, Mark Dorio, Ufology: a very short introduction, page 2:

Way back then, in that ufologically more innocent era, when flying saucers seen in the sky and perhaps on the ground were essentially the whole story, I could not have known that numerous other cases of abduction would be reported […]

2007, Stanton T. Friedman, Kathleen Marden, Captured!, page viii:


goadingly

goadingly (comparative more goadingly, superlative most goadingly)

more goadingly (comparative)
most goadingly (superlative)


dissolvingly

dissolvingly (comparative more dissolvingly, superlative most dissolvingly)

more dissolvingly (comparative)
most dissolvingly (superlative)

The drinks were in them dissolvingly, joiningly, now: […]

1952, Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, page 307:

So as to dissolve or disappear gradually.


unchivalrously

unchivalrously (comparative more unchivalrously, superlative most unchivalrously)

more unchivalrously (comparative)
most unchivalrously (superlative)

In an unchivalrous manner; without chivalry.


audiently

audiently (comparative more audiently, superlative most audiently)

more audiently (comparative)
most audiently (superlative)

From Latin audient- + -ly. Compare later audient.


duodecimally

But time is divided by nature duodecimally, not decimally.

1842, Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller, on the social and political state of France, page 58:


needlingly

needlingly (comparative more needlingly, superlative most needlingly)

more needlingly (comparative)
most needlingly (superlative)


burlesquely

burlesquely (comparative more burlesquely, superlative most burlesquely)

more burlesquely (comparative)
most burlesquely (superlative)


roisterously

roisterously (comparative more roisterously, superlative most roisterously)

more roisterously (comparative)
most roisterously (superlative)

For at her feet, grubbing in the dirt and not a whit cleaner, crawls a fat, chubby, ink-eyed little urchin, all but nude, and chuckling roisterously with the delight of having just constructed with success a model mud-pie after the universal infantile receipt the wide world over, who glances up at its child-mother and glibly gabbles, “Mamita! mamita !" with roguish glee.

1872 January 5, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, page 64:

Yet he, too, knew all their songs, and sang them along the roads roisterously.

1913, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 7, in Sons and Lovers:

Dispatching most of the scientists from the room with a hail of laughter that was part congratulation, part triumph, and all, in its unalloyed arrogance, roisterously appealing and charismatic, he huddled quickly with Tung, Sato, and Livingston to attack the next set of experiments […]

2013, Barry Werth, The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug, page 418:


ergatively

an ergatively marked noun

In the light of this observation, it is interesting to note that the NP which is the Object of roll in (99) (a) seems to obey the same selection restrictions as the NP which is its Subject in (99) (b): cf.
 (100) (a) John rolled the ball/the rock/!the theory/!sincerity down the hill
 (100) (b) The ball/the rock/!the theory/!sincerity rolled down the hill
 Thus, the fact that the Object of roll when used transitively obeys the same selection restrictions as its Subject when used ergatively provides interesting independent confirmation of our initial assumption that the two NPs play the same thematic role, even though they have different constituent structure status.

1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 374:


undeterrably

undeterrably (comparative more undeterrably, superlative most undeterrably)

more undeterrably (comparative)
most undeterrably (superlative)

In the House, majestically robed and occupying the central position in his Baroque Chair, he presided over the assembly as a priest would have presided over the holiest of rituals, undeterrably exact and of unshaken stateliness.

1953, Colwyn Edward Vulliamy, The Onslow family, 1528-1874, page 97:

In a way that cannot be deterred; with unshakable determination.


breakingly

breakingly (comparative more breakingly, superlative most breakingly)

more breakingly (comparative)
most breakingly (superlative)

back-breakingly hard work

a heart-breakingly sad song

a record-breakingly young Prime Minister

(in combination) In a manner that breaks.


supplicantly

supplicantly (comparative more supplicantly, superlative most supplicantly)

more supplicantly (comparative)
most supplicantly (superlative)


scalariformly

scalariformly (comparative more scalariformly, superlative most scalariformly)

more scalariformly (comparative)
most scalariformly (superlative)


unempathetically

unempathetically (comparative more unempathetically, superlative most unempathetically)

more unempathetically (comparative)
most unempathetically (superlative)


intrapersonally

intrapersonally (comparative more intrapersonally, superlative most intrapersonally)

more intrapersonally (comparative)
most intrapersonally (superlative)

Within the mind of an individual person.


chafingly

chafingly (comparative more chafingly, superlative most chafingly)

more chafingly (comparative)
most chafingly (superlative)


downcastly

downcastly (comparative more downcastly, superlative most downcastly)

more downcastly (comparative)
most downcastly (superlative)


distoproximally

distoproximally (comparative more distoproximally, superlative most distoproximally)

more distoproximally (comparative)
most distoproximally (superlative)


undistinguishedly

undistinguishedly (comparative more undistinguishedly, superlative most undistinguishedly)

more undistinguishedly (comparative)
most undistinguishedly (superlative)

In an undistinguished manner; without distinction.


augmentatively

augmentatively (comparative more augmentatively, superlative most augmentatively)

more augmentatively (comparative)
most augmentatively (superlative)


countertransferentially

By means of, or in terms of, countertransference.


execratively

execratively (comparative more execratively, superlative most execratively)

more execratively (comparative)
most execratively (superlative)


scansorially

scansorially (comparative more scansorially, superlative most scansorially)

more scansorially (comparative)
most scansorially (superlative)


demurringly

demurringly (comparative more demurringly, superlative most demurringly)

more demurringly (comparative)
most demurringly (superlative)


recreantly

recreantly (comparative more recreantly, superlative most recreantly)

more recreantly (comparative)
most recreantly (superlative)


reposingly

reposingly (comparative more reposingly, superlative most reposingly)

more reposingly (comparative)
most reposingly (superlative)

His left foot and leg is withdrawn and reposingly gathered back under him.

1839, William Augustus Stearns, Life and character of S. H. Stearns, page 192:


evangelistically

evangelistically (comparative more evangelistically, superlative most evangelistically)

more evangelistically (comparative)
most evangelistically (superlative)


rejoicefully

rejoicefully (comparative more rejoicefully, superlative most rejoicefully)

more rejoicefully (comparative)
most rejoicefully (superlative)


intersectionally

intersectionally (comparative more intersectionally, superlative most intersectionally)

more intersectionally (comparative)
most intersectionally (superlative)

Perhaps the widespread attempts in recent years to try to think intersectionally – to understand how multiple factors affect each person’s identity and experience – has equipped us to understand how unequally affected we are by a disease and the measures taken to limit it.

2020 April 17, Rebecca Solnit, “Coronavirus does discriminate, because that’s what humans do”, in The Guardian:


if not

People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?

2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times:

Used to link a semantically weaker word to a semantically stronger word following the adverb, both sharing the same basic meaning, indicating the increased likelihood of the former.


haplologically

a haplologically shortened form


harmonizingly

harmonizingly (comparative more harmonizingly, superlative most harmonizingly)

more harmonizingly (comparative)
most harmonizingly (superlative)


bedazzlingly

bedazzlingly (comparative more bedazzlingly, superlative most bedazzlingly)

more bedazzlingly (comparative)
most bedazzlingly (superlative)

So as to bedazzle; stunningly bright or glamorous.


Romewards

Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic church.


embitteringly

embitteringly (comparative more embitteringly, superlative most embitteringly)

more embitteringly (comparative)
most embitteringly (superlative)


warefully

warefully (comparative more warefully, superlative most warefully)

more warefully (comparative)
most warefully (superlative)

(archaic) In a wareful manner; cautiously.


digestibly

digestibly (comparative more digestibly, superlative most digestibly)

more digestibly (comparative)
most digestibly (superlative)

I didn't understand that. Could you explain it again more digestibly?

In a digestible manner; so as to be digested easily.


answeringly

answeringly (comparative more answeringly, superlative most answeringly)

more answeringly (comparative)
most answeringly (superlative)

From Middle English answeryngly, answeryngli, answeringli, equivalent to answering + -ly.

There was a slight tremor in his voice, that thrilled, answeringly, a chord in the heart of his questioner.

1851, T. S. Arthur, The Lights and Shadows of Real Life:

In a way that answers; so as to answer; in reply.


blamingly

blamingly (comparative more blamingly, superlative most blamingly)

more blamingly (comparative)
most blamingly (superlative)

1832, Thomas Carlyle, Boswell's Life of Johnson
Thus, if Johnson say, in one sentence, that 'English names should not be used in Latin verses;' and then, in the next sentence, speak blamingly of 'Carteret being used as a dactyl,' will the generality of mortals detect any puzzle there?


traumatizingly

traumatizingly (comparative more traumatizingly, superlative most traumatizingly)

more traumatizingly (comparative)
most traumatizingly (superlative)


awakeningly

awakeningly (comparative more awakeningly, superlative most awakeningly)

more awakeningly (comparative)
most awakeningly (superlative)

an awakeningly unforgettable journey

In a way that awakens, or brings new sensations.


suddently

(nonstandard) Alternative form of suddenly


gramophonically

In most cases, comparison of an artist's piano roll with his or her gramophonically recorded performance of the same work leads to a measure of scepticism.

1998, Jeremy Siepmann, The Piano, page 36:


soothfastly

soothfastly (comparative more soothfastly, superlative most soothfastly)

more soothfastly (comparative)
most soothfastly (superlative)

From Middle English sothefastly, soþfasstlike, soðfæstlice, from Old English sōþfæstlīċe, equivalent to soothfast + -ly.

[…]—insomuch that thou or another, for such onehead that feeleth the perfection of this work, may soothfastly by witness of Scripture be called a God—[…]

2012, Evelyn Underhill, The Cloud of Unknowing:

And notwithstanding all this, I saw soothfastly that our Lord was never wroth, nor ever shall be.

2013, originally written 1410-1420, Julian of Norwich, The Showings of Divine Love:

(archaic) Actually; truthfully; honestly.


quhere

(especially Scotland) Obsolete spelling of where.


quhow

(often Scotland) Obsolete spelling of how.


quhen

Quhen he was kyng with crone rygnend

1420, Andrew of Wyntoun, Macbeth and the Weird Sisters:

(chiefly Scotland) Obsolete spelling of when.


open-endedly

open-endedly (comparative more open-endedly, superlative most open-endedly)

more open-endedly (comparative)
most open-endedly (superlative)

It’s a huge all-encompassing environmental force, determining the lives of everyone, open-endedly.

2013, John Lancaster, “When did you get hooked?”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:

In an open-ended manner; indefinitely; freely.


dismayfully

dismayfully (comparative more dismayfully, superlative most dismayfully)

more dismayfully (comparative)
most dismayfully (superlative)

Nought feared they what he could do or say, / But th'onely feare that was before their vew, / From which like mazed deare dismayfully they flew.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


fluidically

fluidically (comparative more fluidically, superlative most fluidically)

more fluidically (comparative)
most fluidically (superlative)


nodosely

nodosely (comparative more nodosely, superlative most nodosely)

more nodosely (comparative)
most nodosely (superlative)


openmindedly

openmindedly (comparative more openmindedly, superlative most openmindedly)

more openmindedly (comparative)
most openmindedly (superlative)


synaesthetically

synaesthetically induced colours


ceilingward

Liddell nodded, exhaled a feathery tendril of dirty white smoke ceilingward.

1949, Frank Kane, Green Light for Death, Prologue Books, published 2012, →ISBN:

“Mom!” he said, rolling his eyes ceilingward. “I'm not a kid, you know.”

1989, Sandra Brown, Long Time Coming, Bantam Dell, published 2006, →ISBN, page 76:

Logging off, Alynn stood up and stretched her arms ceilingward, fingers intertwined high above her head.

2002, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Vectors, Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 118:


Greekly

Greekly (comparative more Greekly, superlative most Greekly)

more Greekly (comparative)
most Greekly (superlative)

The waxen pallor of her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid's bow, Greekly perfect.

1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:

Originally all the Delta waterways had been natural, but after the Greekly scientific Ptolemies came to rule Egypt, they connected Nilus's network of arms with thousands of canals, […]

2007, Colleen McCullough, The October Horse, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 82:

They were termed agons (or, to pluralize more Greekly, agones), which word, despite the evident connection to our agony or agonize, originally had nothing to do with the duress or anguish these words now convey.

2011, Robert Metcalfe, Simpson Agonistes: A History of a Crime, iUniverse, published 2012, →ISBN, page 19:

In a Greek manner; in a way characteristic of Greeks.


huffishly

huffishly (comparative more huffishly, superlative most huffishly)

more huffishly (comparative)
most huffishly (superlative)


becos

(dialectal) Alternative spelling of because


twice as less

1987, Eleanor Wilson Orr, Twice as Less, W. W. Norton & Co.:

The governing party receives twice as less votes here than it does on average across Russia.

2015 July 27, Yaroslav Vlasov, “Electioneering games in Siberia”, in Open Democracy:

But this^([sic]) two oncoming waves move with velocity approximately twice as less as previous component: […].

2002, Claude R. Phipps, editor, High-power Laser Ablation III, SPIE, page 415:

The children also are able to construct a table to assist them in determining how many runs must be made by a truck and a trailer in order to transport 1080 tons of coal, if the truck can haul 30 tons per load and the trailer can carry twice as less coal per load.

2011, Cai Jinfa, Eric J. Knuth, editors, Early Algebraization: A Global Dialogue from Multiple Perspectives, Springer, page 83:


psychospiritually

psychospiritually (comparative more psychospiritually, superlative most psychospiritually)

more psychospiritually (comparative)
most psychospiritually (superlative)


unabrasively

unabrasively (comparative more unabrasively, superlative most unabrasively)

more unabrasively (comparative)
most unabrasively (superlative)


fascinatedly

fascinatedly (comparative more fascinatedly, superlative most fascinatedly)

more fascinatedly (comparative)
most fascinatedly (superlative)

Number four boat filled rapidly, but everybody was focusing fascinatedly on those blades aft.

2004, Violet Jessop, John Maxtone Graham, Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop, page 174:

The limit of death that is so fascinatedly and prettily witnessed in the sentimental deathbed scene is here pried open and distended.

1995, Shawn Rosenheim, Stephen Rachman, The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe, page 116:

In a fascinated manner; with fascination.


undashingly

undashingly (comparative more undashingly, superlative most undashingly)

more undashingly (comparative)
most undashingly (superlative)

This view […] is not however far different from the British Colonial view which undashingly urges selfish considerations.

1976, Mohinder K. Manchanda, India and America: Historical Links, page 91:

Rather undashingly he was captured in June 1940 as a sergeant in the Maginot Line, but escaped the following year to join a colonial infantry unit.

1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 167:

In a way that is not dashing; unstylishly.


designatively

designatively (comparative more designatively, superlative most designatively)

more designatively (comparative)
most designatively (superlative)


unmetaphorically

unmetaphorically (comparative more unmetaphorically, superlative most unmetaphorically)

more unmetaphorically (comparative)
most unmetaphorically (superlative)


geostrophically

By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.


triumphalistically

triumphalistically (comparative more triumphalistically, superlative most triumphalistically)

more triumphalistically (comparative)
most triumphalistically (superlative)


endwards

endwards (comparative more endwards, superlative most endwards)

more endwards (comparative)
most endwards (superlative)


Canadianly

Canadianly (comparative more Canadianly, superlative most Canadianly)

more Canadianly (comparative)
most Canadianly (superlative)

There was a nervousness under that quick Canadianly-accented talk of his, as if he were working himself up to something.

1920, Berta Ruck, Sweethearts Unmet, Hodder & Stoughton, published 1920, page 270:

[…] so that in a minute a burly bearded thoroughly Canadian figure in one of those Canadianly inevitable checked-flannel shirts appears out of the dim light in the shop's back room and wipes its mouth on first one sleeve then the other […]

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 480:

(Apparently, even having a favorite Mountie is an American trait. When I asked the twentieth commissioner of Mounties, Giuliano "Zach" Zaccardelli, who was his favorite RCMP commissioner in history, he answered Canadianly, "Every one of them has contributed tremendously to the legacy of the RCMP, and I hope that during my tenure I will be able to add some value to the legacy that those nineteen who came before me left for this organization.")

2002, Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 151:

In a Canadian way; in a manner characteristic of Canada or Canadians.


geostrategically

The Vatican is not geostrategically important.


dollishly

dollishly (comparative more dollishly, superlative most dollishly)

more dollishly (comparative)
most dollishly (superlative)


straightwise

straightwise (comparative more straightwise, superlative most straightwise)

more straightwise (comparative)
most straightwise (superlative)

straight; on an unerring course; directly


pretendedly

pretendedly (comparative more pretendedly, superlative most pretendedly)

more pretendedly (comparative)
most pretendedly (superlative)

This Author mightily triumphs in Bishops confirming Children, pretendedly Baptized by Dissenting Teachers, as if they therefore acknowledg'd those Baptisms to be Valid.

1712, Roger Laurence, Lay-Baptism Invalid:

In a way that is pretended; under false pretence.


suppliantly

suppliantly (comparative more suppliantly, superlative most suppliantly)

more suppliantly (comparative)
most suppliantly (superlative)

Come hither, boy, and standing suppliantly,
Lay hand upon the father that begat thee,
And sitting in the guise of one who prays,
Hold in thy hands my locks, and hers, and thine,
A treasure of entreaty.

1878, Edward Hayes Plumptre, transl., Aias, lines 1171–1175:

In a suppliant manner; in a humble or earnestly pleading manner.


teachably

teachably (comparative more teachably, superlative most teachably)

more teachably (comparative)
most teachably (superlative)


motherfuckingly

And this meant that this assignment was going to be motherfuckingly difficult if not downright impossible — the make or break case of his own law enforcement career.

1990, Rampike, volume 7, unnumbered page:

Of course, the Europa speakers sounded motherfuckingly, suberbly excellent!

2003 August 17, trotsky, “Here it is! Part II”, in rec.audio.opinion (Usenet):

It was a busy day at the beach and because it was so glaringly sunny, everyone ignored the fact that it was motherfuckingly cold.

2011, Helen Doan, On My Behalf, Savant Books, →ISBN, page 211:


longsomely

longsomely (comparative more longsomely, superlative most longsomely)

more longsomely (comparative)
most longsomely (superlative)

From Middle English *langsumliche, from Old English langsumlīċe (“long, during or for a long time; patiently, with long-suffering”), equivalent to longsome + -ly.

inh

In a longsome, long-lasting, or tedious manner; lengthily.


with a grain of salt

Calque of Latin cum grānō salis , literally with a grain of salt, figuratively with a bit of common sense (from Pliny’s Pompey’s discovery of an antidote against poison to be taken with a grain of salt).

I take anything I read on the Internet with a grain of salt.

In it, police laid out list of biographical factoids about BTK and urged residents to read it with a grain of salt. Releasing a list of his “claims,” they reasoned, might allow someone, somewhere to make a connection that police couldn't hope to.

2008, John Douglas, Johnny Dodd, Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(idiomatic) With a little common sense and skepticism.


streetwards

It was a large front room on the first floor, over a chandler's shop in an old-fashioned house in Montague Street, Whitechapel. Its shape was peculiar—an oblong stretching streetwards, interrupted in one of the longer walls by a square.

1931, Israel Zangwill, The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies:


glintingly

en-adv

glintingly (comparative more glintingly, superlative most glintingly)

more glintingly (comparative)
most glintingly (superlative)

glintingly scaled and gorgeously crested humanoid lizards


chatteringly

chatteringly (comparative more chatteringly, superlative most chatteringly)

more chatteringly (comparative)
most chatteringly (superlative)

The stream flowed chatteringly over its bed of pebbles.


on the jar

But I safely put the street door on the jar and got behind the Major's blinds with my shawl on and my mind made up the moment I saw danger to rush out screeching till my voice failed me and catch the Major round the neck[…]

1863, Charles Dickens, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy:


modernistically

modernistically (comparative more modernistically, superlative most modernistically)

more modernistically (comparative)
most modernistically (superlative)


opinionatedly

opinionatedly (comparative more opinionatedly, superlative most opinionatedly)

more opinionatedly (comparative)
most opinionatedly (superlative)


opalescently

opalescently (comparative more opalescently, superlative most opalescently)

more opalescently (comparative)
most opalescently (superlative)

The light seemed to boil opalescently, like liquid soap shaken gently in a bottle.

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 345:


artily

artily (comparative more artily, superlative most artily)

more artily (comparative)
most artily (superlative)

Of course, there are better examples of this artily conscious cult of the naïve: we may mention the Seven Pieces (24) which Jimmy Giuffre, a musically educated white jazz composer, wrote for himself on clarinet or sax, with J. Hall on guitar and Red Mitchell on bass.

1975, Wilfrid Mellers, Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music, page 362:

Attracts an indie, mostly Thai crowd, to drink cocktails (B120) and 3.5-litre towers of draft Heineken (B500) at its wrought-iron tables and artily mismatched furniture.

2010, Lucy Ridout, The Rough Guide to Bangkok:

He stood in front of her wearing an artily ironic nylon leopard-skin print vest bought from the kind of shops where Marcia had rebelliously shopped in high school when she'd been 'going native' as Evie put it.

2013, Emma van der Vliet, Thirty Second World:


zeloso

Borrowed from Italian zeloso, from zelo.

(music) (Played) zealously, energetically, with enthusiasm.


lichenologically

Although many parts of the island are lichenologically unexplored the general distribution of quite a number of more conspicuous lichens can be outlined fairly reliably.

1983, R. South, Biogeography and Ecology of the Island of Newfoundland, volume 48, page 322:


abusedly

abusedly (comparative more abusedly, superlative most abusedly)

more abusedly (comparative)
most abusedly (superlative)


nominalistically

nominalistically (comparative more nominalistically, superlative most nominalistically)

more nominalistically (comparative)
most nominalistically (superlative)


any day

I'm as good as you any day!

every day of the week and twice on Sundays


prosperingly

prosperingly (comparative more prosperingly, superlative most prosperingly)

more prosperingly (comparative)
most prosperingly (superlative)


intropunitively

intropunitively (comparative more intropunitively, superlative most intropunitively)

more intropunitively (comparative)
most intropunitively (superlative)


procrastinatingly

procrastinatingly (comparative more procrastinatingly, superlative most procrastinatingly)

more procrastinatingly (comparative)
most procrastinatingly (superlative)


dearely

dearely (comparative more dearely, superlative most dearely)

more dearely (comparative)
most dearely (superlative)


infanticidally

infanticidally (comparative more infanticidally, superlative most infanticidally)

more infanticidally (comparative)
most infanticidally (superlative)

In terms of, or by means of, infanticide.


dippily

dippily (comparative more dippily, superlative most dippily)

more dippily (comparative)
most dippily (superlative)


technocratically

technocratically (comparative more technocratically, superlative most technocratically)

more technocratically (comparative)
most technocratically (superlative)


ajee

ajee (comparative more ajee, superlative most ajee)

more ajee (comparative)
most ajee (superlative)


agee

agee (comparative more agee, superlative most agee)

more agee (comparative)
most agee (superlative)

From a- + gee. A preposition of state + gee (“to move to one side”), from gee or jee, a call to a horse to move to one side.

I wore my hat agee.

A looking-glass that don't make you look as if your face was all agee.

1837, Catharine Sedgwick, Live and Let Live:

(Scotland, dialect, archaic) Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.


halfways

Half of the way between two points; midway.


No.

Borrowing of the Latin scribal abbreviation No. from (in) numerō (“in number, to the number of”). Cognate with French nᵒ.

They goe two months, & then bring forth a blind off-spring like bitches, nᵒ. eight or nine.

1661, Robert Lovell, A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 129:

Take of Jujubes Nᵒ vi. that is, Six in number.

1693, Steven Blankaart, A Physical Dictionary, 2nd edition, page 146:

No., abbreviation of L. numero, ‘to the number of’.

1994, Dorland's Medical Dictionary, 28th edition, page 1141:

(archaic) Abbreviation of in number or to the number of.


fleshily

fleshily (comparative more fleshily, superlative most fleshily)

more fleshily (comparative)
most fleshily (superlative)


measuredly

measuredly (comparative more measuredly, superlative most measuredly)

more measuredly (comparative)
most measuredly (superlative)


togetherlike

togetherlike (comparative more togetherlike, superlative most togetherlike)

more togetherlike (comparative)
most togetherlike (superlative)

From together + -like. Compare togetherly.

I can read, too, but I'm so little used that the letters somehow gets jumbled together-like, and I can't make nothink on 'em.

1872, The Bankers' Magazine - Volume 32 - Page 766

"Friends," he said," and mates, and respected genelmen hall, we are here, two and three gathered togetherlike, for the purpose of horganizing a Band of 'Ope."

1921, Lloyd Osbourne, Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas - Page 206:

(informal) In such a way as to indicate closeness or togetherness.


togetherly

togetherly (comparative more togetherly, superlative most togetherly)

more togetherly (comparative)
most togetherly (superlative)

These religious forms and religious faiths, togetherly form the religious system of these Gonds, which has expanded with time and during the expansion, experienced contact with other religions.

2005, Anima Sharma, Tribe in Transition:

“'And we can dream together, And if we dream togetherly . ... Whooshed togetherly, but separately cocooned in their own thoughts, by their own sense of the majesty below and of the dauntingness above; [...]

2011, Gregory Dark, Susie and the Snow-It-Alls:

(rare, nonstandard) In a combined or unified manner; together; altogether.


whitherto

(archaic, literary) To where; to which place or destination.


huefully

huefully (comparative more huefully, superlative most huefully)

more huefully (comparative)
most huefully (superlative)

A gaudy grotto of blocked canvas huefully painted — green serpents with flame eyes, rosy, bustious nymphs caught athwart aggressive fish tails.

1927, Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional:

In a hueful or colourful manner; colourfully.


quietlike

quietlike (comparative more quietlike, superlative most quietlike)

more quietlike (comparative)
most quietlike (superlative)

"[...] I can watch her quietlike... like a man."

2009, John Aubrey Anderson, Abiding Darkness:


temp.

Short for Latin tempore (“in the time of”), ablative case of tempus (“time”).

plays published temp. Elizabeth I

In the time of (followed by an indicator of a historical period, especially a reigning monarch).


spec.

A leader; spec. Il''' or The Duce, title assumed by Benito Mussolini (1883–1945), the creator and leader of the Fascist state in Italy.

2019, “Duce, n.”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press:

(reference works) Abbreviation of specifically.


untogether

untogether (comparative more untogether, superlative most untogether)

more untogether (comparative)
most untogether (superlative)

/ˌʌntəˈɡɛðə/

/ˌʌntəˈɡɛðəɹ/

PIE word
 *de
The adjective and adverb are derived from un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + together. The noun is probably derived from the adjective.

Just as Hinckle terms the dispersed text of Jes Grew “Untogether,” [...]

2006, John Kevin Young, Black Writers, White Publishers:


togetherish

togetherish (comparative more togetherish, superlative most togetherish)

more togetherish (comparative)
most togetherish (superlative)

I have hopes then that we might go there together - or at any rate togetherish as to boats - in September.

1982, Ezra Pound, Brita Lindberg-Seyersted, Pound/Ford, the Story of a Literary Friendship:

In a togetherish or somewhat together manner.


listingly

listingly (comparative more listingly, superlative most listingly)

more listingly (comparative)
most listingly (superlative)

[…]she rolled listingly in a heavy sea. Poston and his men wondered whether they would ever see land again.

1961, Alfred William Gressinger, Charles D. Poston: Sunland Seer, page 8:

He bowed and wished Audra a pleasant good night, heading jauntily, if a little listingly, toward the door, completely unaffected by her refusal of him.

1984, Eleanor Hodgson, Norah Parker, Wild Splendid Love, page 256:


top and tail

For this reason also we usually advise that the children are placed "top and tail" alternately so that each child's head is at least six feet from the next one.

1948, Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene (Great Britain), The Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene:

There were seven chisels in my father's toolbox laid top and tail about like sardines or packed on their sides like bottles of wine yet each one different suited and ground to its own purpose and buffed to a misty mirror-finish

The remaining children would almost always share beds, often sleeping 'top and tail' to squeeze in as many as possible into one bed.

2010 March 15, Sue Bruley, The Women and Men of 1926: A Gender and Social History of the General Strike and Miners' Lockout in South Wales, University of Wales Press, →ISBN, page 35:

Lined up in alternating directions; (of humans specifically) lying side-by-side with each person's head by their neighbours' feet.

The Class 50s headed the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cornwall and back to Bristol, running top and tail on the Cornish branches.

2022 May 5, Peter Green, English Electric Class 50 Diesels: From the Western Region to Preservation, Pen and Sword Transport, →ISBN, page 129:

(rail transport, UK) With a locomotive at each end.


eventlessly

The few next days passed eventlessly by, or at least as eventlessly as days can pass to visitors in Home.

1870, Lucius O'Brien Blake, Rich and Rare, page 189:


an all

(informal or dialectal) Alternative form of and all


pluperfectly

pluperfectly (comparative more pluperfectly, superlative most pluperfectly)

more pluperfectly (comparative)
most pluperfectly (superlative)

But in America what good can be said of those who, living upon the fortunes of fathers or grandfathers, amassed in honest trade, — residents of a particular street which is thereby rendered pluperfectly genteel, — with no recommendation but that derived from fashion and idleness, — draw the lines of social demarcation more closely than they are drawn in Europe, intellect and accomplishments being systematically snubbed where the possessors cannot show their family passes?

1866, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, Issue 102, Atlantic Media, Inc., page 390:

Three years later Castelar opposed federation, and made an enemy of the most sensible party in Spain, because it is the only one founded on cosas de Espana, the most pluperfectly Spanish cosa being provincial independence, and an inborn hatred of centralization.

1875, Kate Field, Ten Days in Spain, J. R. Osgood and Company, →ISBN, page 269:

Right then and there, on the spot, he got his. And the heroine was always so pluperfectly pure.

1921, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, A Plea for Old Cap Collier, George H. Doran Company, →ISBN, page 17:

(rare) In a way that is more than perfect.


confirmably

confirmably (comparative more confirmably, superlative most confirmably)

more confirmably (comparative)
most confirmably (superlative)

In a way that can be confirmed; verifiably.


socioanthropologically

In terms of, or by means of, socioanthropology.


bioanthropologically

In terms of, or by means of, bioanthropology.


duncely

duncely (comparative more duncely, superlative most duncely)

more duncely (comparative)
most duncely (superlative)

In the manner of a dunce; as a dunce; in the way of scholastic philosophy.


dumpishly

dumpishly (comparative more dumpishly, superlative most dumpishly)

more dumpishly (comparative)
most dumpishly (superlative)

In a dumpish manner; dejectedly; gloomily.


quietlier

comparative form of quietly: more quietly


scampishly

scampishly (comparative more scampishly, superlative most scampishly)

more scampishly (comparative)
most scampishly (superlative)


sweetishly

sweetishly (comparative more sweetishly, superlative most sweetishly)

more sweetishly (comparative)
most sweetishly (superlative)


sourishly

sourishly (comparative more sourishly, superlative most sourishly)

more sourishly (comparative)
most sourishly (superlative)


heterodoxly

heterodoxly (comparative more heterodoxly, superlative most heterodoxly)

more heterodoxly (comparative)
most heterodoxly (superlative)