in one's sight

If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 18:10:

According to one's point of view, or opinion


labouredly

en-adv

labouredly (comparative more labouredly, superlative most labouredly)

more labouredly (comparative)
most labouredly (superlative)


laboredly

laboredly (comparative more laboredly, superlative most laboredly)

more laboredly (comparative)
most laboredly (superlative)


speedfully

speedfully (comparative more speedfully, superlative most speedfully)

more speedfully (comparative)
most speedfully (superlative)


nn

(Philippines, Singapore) Alternative form of NN (“noon”).


pulverulently

pulverulently (comparative more pulverulently, superlative most pulverulently)

more pulverulently (comparative)
most pulverulently (superlative)

In a manner characterized by powderiness or dustiness.


unappetizingly

unappetizingly (comparative more unappetizingly, superlative most unappetizingly)

more unappetizingly (comparative)
most unappetizingly (superlative)

In an unappetizing or unappealing manner.


processively

processively (comparative more processively, superlative most processively)

more processively (comparative)
most processively (superlative)


grievingly

grievingly (comparative more grievingly, superlative most grievingly)

more grievingly (comparative)
most grievingly (superlative)


collegiately

collegiately (comparative more collegiately, superlative most collegiately)

more collegiately (comparative)
most collegiately (superlative)

In the manner of a community or of a group of colleagues.

In the manner of an undergraduate institution of higher education.


publically

publically (comparative more publically, superlative most publically)

more publically (comparative)
most publically (superlative)

U.S. International Trade Commission, Remediation and Nature and Landscape Protection Services
Several of the publically-available offers include changes affecting the classification of the definition of the environmental services covered by their commitments.


inferiorly

inferiorly (comparative more inferiorly, superlative most inferiorly)

more inferiorly (comparative)
most inferiorly (superlative)


helically

helically (comparative more helically, superlative most helically)

more helically (comparative)
most helically (superlative)


ruly

ruly (comparative rulier or more ruly, superlative ruliest or most ruly)

rulier (comparative)
more ruly (comparative)
ruliest (superlative)
most ruly (superlative)

From Middle English rewly, reoly, reowliche, from Old English hrēowlīċe (“cruelly”), equivalent to rue + -ly.


unfeignedly

unfeignedly (comparative more unfeignedly, superlative most unfeignedly)

more unfeignedly (comparative)
most unfeignedly (superlative)


agonisingly

agonisingly (comparative more agonisingly, superlative most agonisingly)

more agonisingly (comparative)
most agonisingly (superlative)

The hour while I waited for the pain medication to take effect dragged on agonisingly.

Bradley Johnson could not find his team-mate with a through ball but Antonio Valencia slipped, putting Pilkington clean through, only for the former Huddersfield man to shoot agonisingly wide.

2011 October 1, Alistair Magowan, “Man Utd 2 - 0 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:


parasitologically

In a parasitological manner; as regards parasites or parasitology.


birdishly

birdishly (comparative more birdishly, superlative most birdishly)

more birdishly (comparative)
most birdishly (superlative)


mutedly

mutedly (comparative more mutedly, superlative most mutedly)

more mutedly (comparative)
most mutedly (superlative)


mixotrophically

In a mixotrophic manner; by the use of mixotrophy


real soon now

From the information technology community, popularized by Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor column in BYTE magazine.

(informal) Designating a time when something will become available, supposedly (but perhaps only optimistically) in the near future.


front and center

All these familiar flavors are again front and center in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the feature that returns Aardman to theatrical stop-motion after the CGI of Arthur Christmas and Flushed Away.

2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club:

But despite improvements, Mr Baruch says some complaints persist. “Pay to stay [cash to secure shelf space] is front and centre of the complaints we receive — it’s supply chain bullying and anti-competitive. They shouldn’t try to create barriers to business — it’s fundamentally unfair, particularly at a time when small business confidence is at an all-time low.”

2016 August 21, Paul McClean, “Supermarkets and suppliers take stock of relationships”, in Financial Times:

The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, is putting climate change front and centre in a speech committing his party to cooperating with Labor and turfing out a government that “don’t deserve to govern”.

2018 September 2, Richard Parkin, “Morning mail: Greens put climate change front and centre”, in The Guardian:

Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center [title]

2020 November 10, Cecilia Kang, David McCabe, Jack Nicas, “Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Swift is many things onstage—vulnerable and triumphant, playful and sad—but the intimacy of her songcraft is front and center.

2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time:


elsewise

‘Tell me true. If I fell into the hands of your people and yielded myself, what would it win me?’ ‘A slower death than elsewise.’

1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 748:


sooner than later

sooner rather than later
sooner rather than later#English

Alternative form of sooner rather than later


antigenically

(immunology) In the manner of an antigen


TTBOMK

to the best of my knowledge
to one's knowledge#English

(Internet slang) Initialism of to the best of my knowledge, indicating uncertainty in spite of having some knowledge on the subject.


soonish

soonish (comparative more soonish, superlative most soonish)

more soonish (comparative)
most soonish (superlative)

Some time in the not so distant but not yet definable future.


all to smash

(idiomatic) completely, to the point of destruction.


sooo

This bf style is sooo comfy; it's super oversized and the waffle material is ideal for all the chill days around the corner. PS: get the shorts, too.

2023 November 4, Kim Duong, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “22 Best Shackets to Get You Through the Chilly Fall Weather”, in Cosmopolitan:


rotationally

The shaft can be turned rotationally, but not translated.


precognitively

precognitively (comparative more precognitively, superlative most precognitively)

more precognitively (comparative)
most precognitively (superlative)

In a precognitive manner; with precognition.


somatically

somatically (comparative more somatically, superlative most somatically)

more somatically (comparative)
most somatically (superlative)


inarguably

Indisputably; certainly, definitely; without the possibility of argument or debate.


accidentally on purpose

accidentally on purpose (not comparable)

However, having accidentally-on-purpose got hold of a piece of the fish, down it went; and, apparently thinking that under the circumstances he might do worse, he set to work with no ill-will or appetite, and soon got through a good part of a haddock.

1860, Cornwall Simeon, Stray Notes on Fishing and Natural History, page 159:

When a buffalo charges at her husband, Margot, directly in back of him and standing up in Wilson's open car, fires toward the buffalo and kills Francis — whether accidentally, on purpose, or accidentally on purpose, H. leaves ambiguous.

2003, The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, edited by Steven R. Serafin and Alfred Bendixen, page 512 (entry "Hemingway")

“Or maybe,” Jack added, “her mother accidentally on purpose lost it.”

2008, Karen White, The House on Tradd Street:

Deliberately, though apparently accidentally.


quadrupedally

The basic pattern of limb action in quadrupedally running lizards is the trot, in which body support is maintained by diagonally opposite limbs.

1962, R. C. Snyder, “Adaptations for Bipedal Locomotion of Lizards”, in American Zoologist, volume 2, number 2, page 192:

In the manner of an animal that walks on four feet or four legs.


sempiternally

(philosophy) in an everlasting manner, as to have an infinite temporal duration; as opposed to eternally or timelessly, as to exist outside time


a great deal

We had a great deal more money after winning the lottery.

(idiomatic) Very much; to a great extent; a lot; lots.


consumptively

consumptively (comparative more consumptively, superlative most consumptively)

more consumptively (comparative)
most consumptively (superlative)


forever and a day

Possibly a folk-etymological alteration of forever and ay.

I'll love you forever and a day.

If this be not that you looke for, I haue no more to ſay, / But bid Bianca farewell for euer and a day.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 225, column 2:

What you gonna do when you just found forever? / Where you gonna get to when you can't get it together? / Forever and a day

2001, Ian Brown, Francis Dunnery (lyrics and music), “Forever and a Day”, in Music of the Spheres, performed by Ian Brown:

I went to the front yard, talked for maybe two more hours with Colombina and Rosita, his caretaker, and then we had to leave, but Nicanor still had enough material for forever and a day.

2018 February 2, Alejandro Zambra, “Remembering Nicanor Parra, the Almost Immortal Chilean Poet”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-02:

Honestly, I had acne forever and a day and just struggled to find a routine that addressed my sensitive skin and so I made it!

2023 November 17, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, episode 1878, spoken by Scarlett Johansson:

(idiomatic) For a very long or seemingly endless time.


exhaustingly

exhaustingly (comparative more exhaustingly, superlative most exhaustingly)

more exhaustingly (comparative)
most exhaustingly (superlative)


divergently

divergently (comparative more divergently, superlative most divergently)

more divergently (comparative)
most divergently (superlative)


va banque

From French (je) va (la) banque, a call used in the 18th century in games like Rouge et Noir and Faro to announce that one was betting as much money as the bank had, to either win or lose that amount.

Sämisch was critical of this move, saying Black was now playing va banque. However, as was often the case in games between these players, Richter looks for ways to complicate things for Sämisch by adding to his clock problems.

2018 October 5, Alan McGowan, Kurt Richter: A Chess Biography with 499 Games, McFarland, →ISBN, page 88:

Now he went va banque, risking the failure of the negotiations. Eden proposed to sign only a mutual military assistance agreement for twenty years and not to mention political questions or questions connected to borders at all.

2020 December 15, Eero Medijainen, Weaving the Iron Curtain, the Allies, and the Baltic States, 1939–1944: Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Caricatures, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 109:

All or nothing, all in, for broke; riskily putting everything on the line to either win it all or lose it all.


these days

These days everyone can make a movie using their mobile phone, which we didn't use to be able to do.

However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.

1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):


fletched

Fletched darts have the power to kill even when propelled from a great distance and are a highly sophisticated technology.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 215:

Of an arrow or dart, fitted with fletches.


figurately

figurately (comparative more figurately, superlative most figurately)

more figurately (comparative)
most figurately (superlative)

It is as when we seek for the signification of any particular word in a language; we may find that it bears many different meanings, and some which seem to be contradictory to each other; yet upon further search we may perhaps discover that there is a common idea, which is the source of them all, and that they differ only because the word is taken in one sense literally, in another figurately, and in a third with some special application.

1849, William Nind, Lecture-Sermons preached in a Country Parish Church, pages 115–116:

He stood in the centre of that great pile, figurately speaking, the cynosure of all eyes from Maine to California, and his fame was noised abroad in Europe.

1887, Henry Clews, Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street, page 233:

As was observed before in Figuration of Surds; so here it may be remembred that any Species simply Irrational, multiplied figurately, produceth a Rational: But Compound Irrational Species may be squared, cubed, etc. by multiplying them figurately as other Figural Numbers are multiplied; but the Unciae to the Parodical Degrees here, will be the Squares of them in Rational Species.

1701, Samuel Jeake, A Compleat Body of Arithmetic:

In the regulations for Trnava school, which Nicolaus Olahus issued in 1554, we find "The sublector should support a school succentor, who would teach the boys to sing figurately, as well as Gregorian chant."

1977, Slovenské národné múzeum, Ivan Mačák, Sources of Slovak Music, page 108:

In a figurate manner; Using or forming a figure.


illy

illy (comparative more illy, superlative most illy)

more illy (comparative)
most illy (superlative)


toto caelo

/ˈtəʊtəʊˈsiːləʊ/

From Latin tōto (“whole, all”) + caelō (“heaven”), literally “by the whole [extent] of heaven”.

All which three, viz. Things as they are in themselves knowable; Actions as they depend on us, in order to Happiness; and the right use of Signs in order to Knowledge, being toto cælo different, they seemed to me to be the three great Provinces of the intellectual World, wholly separate and distinct one from another.

1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 4, Chapter 20, p. 362:

The Ingævones, according to Pliny’s own account, were the Chauci, &c. who were all on the west, not the east, so that he errs toto cælo.

1789, John Pinkerton, An Enquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcolm III. or the Year 1056, London: George Nicol, Volume 2, Appendix, p. 204:

[…] where local agents differed toto cælo in capacity and character, where the personnel was continually changing, the outcome was necessarily varied.

1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, chapter 2, in The Souls of Black Folk, Chicago: McClurg, page 31:

(law) By diametrical opposition, as far apart as possible.


nuclearly

nuclearly (comparative more nuclearly, superlative most nuclearly)

more nuclearly (comparative)
most nuclearly (superlative)

In a nuclear manner; related to a nucleus or to nuclear power.


omnisciently

In an omniscient manner; with omniscience.


azimuthally

In a manner with respect to the azimuth; with respect to the angle above a plane.


indeedie

Was pink pig Mr. Swoon absolutely sure my wife had not telephoned? He was. If she did, would he tell her we had gone on to Aunt Clare's place? He would, indeedie.


almost everywhere

Alternative form: a.e.

(measure theory) For all elements except those contained in some set of measure zero.

幾乎處處

everywhere except at a set of measure zero

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see almost, everywhere.


beefily

beefily (comparative more beefily, superlative most beefily)

more beefily (comparative)
most beefily (superlative)


sonically

The artifact was cleaned sonically in the ultrasonic cleaner tank in mere seconds.


appetisingly

appetisingly (comparative more appetisingly, superlative most appetisingly)

more appetisingly (comparative)
most appetisingly (superlative)


verbatim et literatim

Latin verbātim (“word-for-word”) + et (“and”) + līterātim (“letter-for-letter”).

This fact is not otherwise important than as it tends to prove, that no verbatim et literatim copy of the original has as yet been published.

1825, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, A Synopsis of the Peerage of England: Exhibiting, under Alphabetical Arrangement, The Date of Creation, Descent, and Present State of Every Title of Peerage Which has Existed in this Country since the Conquest. In Two Volumes, page 807:

It is true the pardon was granted with so many precautions and conclusions, especially as regarded the poor bridegroom, that, if delivered as it was received, verbatim et liberatim, Mrs. Palmer could not fail to be assured it would be rejected, not only by the gentleman, but the fond wife, who honoured not less than she loved him.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 210:

The only liberty which has been taken in reprinting this Dedication, is in reference to the supplying of modern punctuation, and the division of it into paragraphs; but in other respects it is given verbatim et literatim.

Following is a copy of a letter received last week from a man in Texas by a bran company here, given verbatim et literatim: […]

1902 October 13, R. E. Sterling, “Kansas Department”, in The Northwestern Miller, volume 54, number 16, Minneapolis, Minn.: The Miller Publishing Co., published 1902 October 15, page 795, column 4:

But the meaning is in all cases clearly conveyed, and, in justice both to the author and the reader, they have been printed verbatim et literatim, as in the original manuscripts.

2004, Peter Esprit Radisson, Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, page 2:


first of all

(sequence, idiomatic) Firstly; before anything else.


berserkly

berserkly (comparative more berserkly, superlative most berserkly)

more berserkly (comparative)
most berserkly (superlative)


smegging

That was smegging hilarious.


prevalently

prevalently (comparative more prevalently, superlative most prevalently)

more prevalently (comparative)
most prevalently (superlative)


prevailingly

prevailingly (comparative more prevailingly, superlative most prevailingly)

more prevailingly (comparative)
most prevailingly (superlative)

Such places weren't strange to him when they took the form of bourgeois back parlours, a trifle ominously grey and grim from their north light, at watering-places prevailingly homes of humbug, or even when they wore some aspect still less, if not perhaps still more, insidious.


pricelessly

pricelessly (comparative more pricelessly, superlative most pricelessly)

more pricelessly (comparative)
most pricelessly (superlative)


utmostly

"Better be very careful and utmostly cautious, sir," the negro warned him.

1920, Jack London, Hearts of Three, Kessinger, published 2003, →ISBN, page 23:

The operation, however, by which the utmostly unfair deal entailed by utmost legality is nullified, cannot be successful at a lesser price than the infliction of an unfair deal on standard legality […]

1953, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Foundations Of The World Republic, page 174:

Mike seemed about to weep. "Jubal, I am utmostly sorry."

1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 113:


proditoriously

proditoriously (comparative more proditoriously, superlative most proditoriously)

more proditoriously (comparative)
most proditoriously (superlative)

he humbly calleth for mercy, alleaging that he had justly murthered the murtherer of his father, whom his good chance was to finde there, averring by good witnesses, before them all, that in the Citie of the Leontines, his father had been proditoriously slaine by him, on whom he had now revenged himselfe.

(obsolete) In a proditorious manner; treacherously, traitorously.


mnemotechnically

In a mnemotechnic manner; using mnemotechny.


as best one can

We tried to make our lives comfortable as best we could.

As best I can tell, this wound does not seem grievous.

(idiomatic) In the best possible way, given one's circumstances and abilities.

så godt man kan

in the best possible way, given the circumstances


abeat

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timoroso

(music) (To be played) in a timid, hesitant manner.


supersubstantially

supersubstantially (comparative more supersubstantially, superlative most supersubstantially)

more supersubstantially (comparative)
most supersubstantially (superlative)


largando

(music) (To be played) gradually slower and broader.


supereminently

supereminently (comparative more supereminently, superlative most supereminently)

more supereminently (comparative)
most supereminently (superlative)

He begins his letter under the same sensations he would have, if he were to accost her in person, only with this difference,—that he may take as much time as he pleases, for consideration, and need not write a single word that he has not well weighed and pondered beforehand, much less a sentence that he does not think supereminently clever.

1731, E . V. Lucas, The World's Classics: William Cowper's Letters: A Selection, R. & R. Clark, Limited, page 58:

A perfect list of its deans, from their first establishment by Edward III, to the time of its surrender by the last; and an account of the benefactions to it when a chapel, from incontrovertible evidence, one of its own records, which has never before been attempted, will also be found here inserted. Few buildings, whether its internal beauty, its original destination and use as a chapel, or its subsequent purpose of an House for the sitting of one branch of the legislature, be considered, can be better entitled than this to regard and attention; and as it was in itself a supereminently beautiful specimen of the Gothic style, it has been thought advisable to subjoin an enquiry into the origin of Gothic architecture also, on which, though a subject often undertaken, original materials before undiscovered have been used, and by a fair state of a variety of facts, it has been ascertained how little former opinions on that point are to be confided in; at the same time, as it is hoped, it will be found, on examination, to contain sufficient circumstances for deciding the question.

1807, John Thomas Smith, Antiquities of Westminster, J. Manson, J. T. Smith, R. Ryan T. Bensley, Bolt Court, pages 10-11:

If you wish to please us, give us receipts for beautifying lotions; or give us some secrets that will make us cruel, irresistible, and killing. If you were as willing, Mr. Printer, to take advice as to give it, I could tell you what to do. Give us the fashions from Europe: give us fine elegant delightful drawings of all the new dresses—full dresses, undresses, promenade dresses, riding dresses, birth-day suits, and all that ’s fine, and grand, and noble, and exquisitely enchanting. Give us supereminently superb ingravings of caps, bonnets, hats, feathers, ribbons, combs, ladies’ heads, and other important things, and Je ne sais quois, which will be interesting to the beau monde in this new hemisphere of fashion.

1811, The Freemason's Magazine and General Miscellany 1811-11: Volume 2, Issue 2, Open Court Publishing Company, page 119:

First, That the eastern states were supereminently commercial. Secondly, That the states south of the Susquehaijnah were wholly agricultural. Thirdly, I'hat there is a natural and inevitable hostility between commercial and agricultural states. Fourthly, That this hostility has uniformly pervaded the whole southern section of the union. And Fifthly, That all measures of congress were dictated by this hostility: and were actually intended to ruin the commercial, meaning the eastern states.

1817, Mathew Carey, The Olive Branch, J. Foster, page 267:

I asked him how she received this piece of candour. ' Oh ! just as aU such candid avowals are received; she never forgave me for it. She endeavoured to prove to me 'au contraire,' the tendencies of both her novels were supereminently moral.

1834, John Nichols, The Gentleman's Magazine, London, page 351:

In a supereminent manner; to a supreme degree.


weightily

weightily (comparative more weightily, superlative most weightily)

more weightily (comparative)
most weightily (superlative)

In a weighty manner; ponderously; forcibly.


unaffordably

unaffordably (comparative more unaffordably, superlative most unaffordably)

more unaffordably (comparative)
most unaffordably (superlative)

Some judges set unaffordably high bail at times with the intention of keeping suspected criminals in prison pending trial.

To a degree that is unaffordable; in an unreasonably expensive manner.


unagreeably

unagreeably (comparative more unagreeably, superlative most unagreeably)

more unagreeably (comparative)
most unagreeably (superlative)


unappreciatively

unappreciatively (comparative more unappreciatively, superlative most unappreciatively)

more unappreciatively (comparative)
most unappreciatively (superlative)

Their peculiar ideas, instead of being sympathetically drawn from them, have been ruthlessly and unappreciatively crushed by the superior knowledge and arrogance of the white race.

1905. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Article by John Davis, Page 223

Without showing appreciation. Ungratefully


jejunely

jejunely (comparative more jejunely, superlative most jejunely)

more jejunely (comparative)
most jejunely (superlative)


zanily

zanily (comparative more zanily, superlative most zanily)

more zanily (comparative)
most zanily (superlative)


sixteenthly

In the sixteenth place; sixteenth in a row.


fourteenthly

In the fourteenth place; fourteenth in a row.


fifteenthly

In the fifteenth place; fifteenth in a row.


thirteenthly

In the thirteenth place; thirteenth in a row.


twentiethly

In the twentieth place; twentieth in a row.


nineteenthly

In nineteenth place; nineteenth in a row.


eleventhly

In the eleventh place; eleventh in a row.


rent-free

I can't believe he was able to stay there for three months rent-free before they caught on.


autotrophically

autotrophically (comparative more autotrophically, superlative most autotrophically)

more autotrophically (comparative)
most autotrophically (superlative)


now you mention it

'I—I—I have fought a little, but not in that climbing way or that running way.' / 'No. Now you mention it,' said Billy, 'you don't look as though you were made for climbing or running—much. Well, how was it, old Hay-bales?'

1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Servants of the Queen”, in The Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 196:

― Everybody gets their own ration of luck, they say. Now you mention it his face was familiar to me. But, leaving that for the moment, how much did you part with, he queried, if I am not too inquisitive?

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 575:

(idiomatic) Used to precede another comment about something just mentioned.


fermentatively

fermentatively (comparative more fermentatively, superlative most fermentatively)

more fermentatively (comparative)
most fermentatively (superlative)


suprisingly

Suprisingly, the dog had only three legs.


obligately

obligately (comparative more obligately, superlative most obligately)

more obligately (comparative)
most obligately (superlative)


radiatively

radiatively (comparative more radiatively, superlative most radiatively)

more radiatively (comparative)
most radiatively (superlative)


googolfold

There are people out there cornerning the market on these things hoping ol' Ty will retire them and somehow disappear from the face of the earth - thereby increasing their value a googolfold.

1999 November 6, chance wolf, “Re: Animefantastique Ends Publication”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet), retrieved 2014-12-10:

To get the intensity of the light travelling the loop we must combine the contributions from photons circling it once, twice, thrice, fourfold, ..., a googolfold […]

2004 January 19, Robert Shaw, “Re: Interesting non-FTL interstellar settings?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 2014-12-10:

The situation is about to get a googol-
fold worse.

2009, Joel Marks, Ought Implies Kant, page 39:


unalienably

unalienably (comparative more unalienably, superlative most unalienably)

more unalienably (comparative)
most unalienably (superlative)


consensually

consensually (comparative more consensually, superlative most consensually)

more consensually (comparative)
most consensually (superlative)


proveably

proveably (comparative more proveably, superlative most proveably)

more proveably (comparative)
most proveably (superlative)


quakingly

quakingly (comparative more quakingly, superlative most quakingly)

more quakingly (comparative)
most quakingly (superlative)

He reads out the name of the boy, who rises respectfully and quakingly to his feet.

In a quaking fashion, especially with fear.


volcanically

volcanically (comparative more volcanically, superlative most volcanically)

more volcanically (comparative)
most volcanically (superlative)

(figurative) In a volcanic (explosive) manner.


supercosmically

Consequently the key to the understanding of myth has to be found transcendently and super-cosmically in confrontation with the revelation of God.

1982, Ignatius Johannes Van der Walt, Defining Ethnology and Religious Science, page 119:

Such people exhaust their energy running after the fantastic, the amazing, and the supercosmically orgasmic.

1988, Swami Chetanananda, The Breath of God, page 57:

They guide us in their light toward the thearchic celebration; we are supercosmically illuminated by them.

2015, Karen Louise Jolly, Tradition and Diversity: Christianity in a World Context to 1500:

(rare) In a supercosmic manner; vastly huge.


gainlessly

gainlessly (comparative more gainlessly, superlative most gainlessly)

more gainlessly (comparative)
most gainlessly (superlative)


inapplicably

inapplicably (comparative more inapplicably, superlative most inapplicably)

more inapplicably (comparative)
most inapplicably (superlative)


subclinically

Subclinically infected kidneys demonstrated initially only small inflammatory foci.

1996, Victor Lorian, Antibiotics in Laboratory Medicine:


drekly

I will do it drekly.

(Cornwall) At an unspecified time, ranging from straight away to a short or long time in the future; eventually


far and wide

From Middle English fer and wide (“far and wide”). Compare Middle English wide and side, widen and siden (“far and wide”), from Old English wīde and sīde (“far and wide”).

cog

Over a great distance or large area; nearly everywhere.


whitherward

Inherited from Middle English whiderward, from whider (“whither”). By surface analysis, whither + ward.

inh+

(archaic) In what direction; toward what or which place.


uncourteously

en-adv

uncourteously (comparative more uncourteously, superlative most uncourteously)

more uncourteously (comparative)
most uncourteously (superlative)

From Middle English uncurteisly; equivalent to uncourteous + -ly.

In a way that is not courteous. Impolitely


syncretically

syncretically (comparative more syncretically, superlative most syncretically)

more syncretically (comparative)
most syncretically (superlative)


shinily

shinily (comparative more shinily, superlative most shinily)

more shinily (comparative)
most shinily (superlative)


shiningly

shiningly (comparative more shiningly, superlative most shiningly)

more shiningly (comparative)
most shiningly (superlative)


shipwards

But the boat was afloat, and with a hearty shove on the part of the navy and some hearty thanks on ours we were sent flying shipwards.


thataway

Now there’ll be a jackpot an’ no mistake. I’ll be desperate thataway. Like a hungry hobo locked up in a piehouse. Like a weary pilgrim who hears them pearly gates clang shut behind him . . .

1932, Robert Ormond Case, “A New Design”, in Whispering Valley, Oxford, Oxon: ISIS Publishing Ltd., published 2010, →ISBN, page 239:

I sure hope he don't get hisself hurt one of these days, running his mouth thataway.

1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:

"You'd talk thataway about your own daddy?"

"They went thataway," said Daisy, pointing.

(humorous or dialect) That way (usually in terms of physical direction).


superluminally

In a superluminal manner; faster than the speed of light.


bodaciously

bodaciously (comparative more bodaciously, superlative most bodaciously)

more bodaciously (comparative)
most bodaciously (superlative)

While Mario and I were conversing, a bodaciously buxom, long haired, brunette came walking by.

2005, Tipi Paul, Wanna Smoke?: The Adventures of a Storyteller:


quotidianly

Epics which cost him fifteen and sixpence a piece, and us nothing, are quotidianly placed before us by the fertile invention of this great master of the art of advertising.

1840, William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh magazine: Volume 7, page 384:

Too frequently has success been inversely proportionate to the fervor of the quest. From our enormous centres of population emanates the complaint that only the opulent are becoming more opulent, while the impecunious are quotidianly depleted to a greater profundity of impecuniousity.

1882, Ballou's monthly magazine: Volume 56, page 145:

But once this document is complete and the project is begun, the rhetoric of game development mostly shifts away from exigent functions and begins to work more quotidianly.

2004, Ken S. McAllister, Game work: language, power, and computer game culture, link:

Occurring on a quotidian basis; daily or commonplace.


contemplatively

contemplatively (comparative more contemplatively, superlative most contemplatively)

more contemplatively (comparative)
most contemplatively (superlative)


felinely

felinely (comparative more felinely, superlative most felinely)

more felinely (comparative)
most felinely (superlative)


deconstructively

deconstructively (comparative more deconstructively, superlative most deconstructively)

more deconstructively (comparative)
most deconstructively (superlative)


therewhile

(obsolete) At that time; at the same time


thereout

From Middle English ther-oute, þer-out, þar-out, þeroute, from Old English þǣrūt and þǣrūte, equivalent to there + out. Compare Saterland Frisian deeruut, Dutch daaruit, German Low German daarut, German daraus.

Claius presently went to a Fisherman, & having agreed with him, and provided some apparrell for the naked stranger, he imbarked, and the Shepheards with him: and were no sooner gone beyond the mouth of the haven, but that some way into the sea they might discerne (as it were) a stayne of the waters colour, and by times some sparkes and smoke mounting thereout.

1590, Philip Sidney, Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia:

Thereout a strange beast with seven heads arose, / That townes and castles under her brest did coure.

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

"Keep thy money, man, and gi's thy hand," says he, and they shake hands; but the old gamester gives the new hat to the shepherd, and, soon after, the half-sovereign to Willum, who thereout decorates his sweetheart with ribbons to his heart's content.

1895, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, page 38:


woollily

woollily (comparative more woollily, superlative most woollily)

more woollily (comparative)
most woollily (superlative)


embarrassedly

embarrassedly (comparative more embarrassedly, superlative most embarrassedly)

more embarrassedly (comparative)
most embarrassedly (superlative)

Charles Gantvoort's pale face flushed a little, and he cleared his throat embarrassedly.


woolily

woolily (comparative more woolily, superlative most woolily)

more woolily (comparative)
most woolily (superlative)

I think of certain genial, lonely, irregular squares, more or less planted with pollarded sycamores, just then woolily tufted with their leaf-buds

1885, William Dean Howells, The Century, page 892:

In a wooly manner; with a wooly appearance.


unembarrassedly

unembarrassedly (comparative more unembarrassedly, superlative most unembarrassedly)

more unembarrassedly (comparative)
most unembarrassedly (superlative)

In an unembarrassed manner; not embarrassedly.


filially

filially (comparative more filially, superlative most filially)

more filially (comparative)
most filially (superlative)


overmanner

(obsolete) In an excessive manner; excessively.


QID

Abbreviation of Latin quater / quattuor in diē.

Dilatation of this type “irons out the folds” of the urethra, giving better drainage of the paraurethral glands, stimulating circulation and promoting rapid healing, especially when small doses (7½ gr. q.i.d.) of one of the triple-sulfonamides are given as an adjunct.

1951 January, Gordon W. Reynolds, “The Female Urethra and Chronic Urethritis”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 1, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 34:


dead to rights

US, 1854, originally New York City criminal slang, thence entered general use. dead (“completely, utterly”) + to rights (“properly”).

have someone dead to rights on something

Because of the video replay, the ref had him dead to rights on the penalty.

(US, idiomatic) With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively.


nightmarishly

nightmarishly (comparative more nightmarishly, superlative most nightmarishly)

more nightmarishly (comparative)
most nightmarishly (superlative)


plain and simple

I don't care what he calls it. What he's doing is theft, plain and simple.

Clearly, without any doubt or complexity.


widthways

The tubes should be placed widthways inside the box.

widthwise Directed across the width of an object or place.


widthwise

widthwise (comparative more widthwise, superlative most widthwise)

more widthwise (comparative)
most widthwise (superlative)

The tubes should be placed widthwise inside the box.


patronisingly

patronisingly (comparative more patronisingly, superlative most patronisingly)

more patronisingly (comparative)
most patronisingly (superlative)

(British, Australia) Alternative spelling of patronizingly


punchily

punchily (comparative more punchily, superlative most punchily)

more punchily (comparative)
most punchily (superlative)

The action scenes are deafening and punchily staged by director Louis Letterier (The Transporter), though I wish he’d set more time aside to spend with Nobby, his paramour Dawn (Rebel Wilson), their shaven-headed brood, and friends

2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):


entrepreneurially

entrepreneurially (comparative more entrepreneurially, superlative most entrepreneurially)

more entrepreneurially (comparative)
most entrepreneurially (superlative)


vigourously

vigourously (comparative more vigourously, superlative most vigourously)

more vigourously (comparative)
most vigourously (superlative)


losslessly

losslessly (comparative more losslessly, superlative most losslessly)

more losslessly (comparative)
most losslessly (superlative)


ONG

that was a great movie, ONG.

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of on God.


straightways

[…] he was straightways received into favour, and heard these most comfortable words at the mouth of Christ:

1844, Thomas Becon, Parker Society, Prayers and Other Pieces of Thomas Becon ..., page 110:

I accepted this compromise against my will, but was straightways thrown into despair as I saw the swimmers up above, on the evening of our singing, making the most unsuitable movements and doleful or indifferent faces […]

1914, Lilli Lehmann, My Path Through Life, page 322:

I was straightways undone at the thought of Momma and Sarah Obis rattled around inside the flying tin can like a couple rag dolls.

2014, Nick May, Molecricket, Energion Publications, →ISBN, page 243:


salubriously

salubriously (comparative more salubriously, superlative most salubriously)

more salubriously (comparative)
most salubriously (superlative)


whorishly

whorishly (comparative more whorishly, superlative most whorishly)

more whorishly (comparative)
most whorishly (superlative)


timelily

timelily (comparative more timelily, superlative most timelily)

more timelily (comparative)
most timelily (superlative)


unguardedly

unguardedly (comparative more unguardedly, superlative most unguardedly)

more unguardedly (comparative)
most unguardedly (superlative)

As for great wigs, upon which I may be thought to have spoken my mind too freely—I beg leave to qualify whatever has been unguardedly said to their dispraise or prejudice, by one general declaration—That I have no abhorrence whatever, nor do I detest and abjure either great wigs or long beards […]

1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume II, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC:

Alas! in those acute moments, Milford snatched to his lip the poisonous cup of intoxication, and during that delirium, if her hapless form met his glaring eye, the hand of passion would unguardedly wreak its vengeance on the insensate object of his wrath, and thus execrating Hymen, and all his votaries, this sullen captive would, till the exhausted storm of passion sunk him in agitated slumbers, while his sleepy wife was dreaming by his side, of all the glorious pomps and vanities to which her husband’s consequence, and her own imagined charms had raised her.

1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXII, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 13:

And Fanny, though I hope I do justice to my sisters['] good qualities, I think it very possible that they might, one or both, be more desirous of being admired by Crawford, and might shew that desire rather more unguardedly than was perfectly prudent.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 86:

But Jane and Jacob are going to have quantities of champagne. Not tipsy, you understand, but at their best, and unguardedly appreciative of each other and us.

1920, E. F. Benson, chapter 11, in Queen Lucia:


stereoselectively

Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Reaction of DAPC 54 with 4 again occurred stereoselectively at the cyclobutene-1,2-diester moiety to produce 56

In a stereoselective manner; through the use of stereoselectivity.


conchoidally

conchoidally (comparative more conchoidally, superlative most conchoidally)

more conchoidally (comparative)
most conchoidally (superlative)


first thing

I'll meet you first thing at the station.

Some of 'em said that when a boy had been away from home a couple of years he ought to want to see his folks the first thing.

1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:

I'll do it first thing after school tomorrow.

2009, Alex J. Packer, Bringing Up Parents: The Teenager's Handbook, →ISBN:

You had to see it first thing, 'cause it was the first thing that caught the eye.

2012, Cd Harper, And Face the Unknown: The Journey of a Lincoln-freed Colored, →ISBN:

Whatever it is, getting it out of the way is crucial to your forward momentum. So, to borrow a phrase from Nike, just do it—and do it first thing.

2013, Nelson Searcy, Jennifer Dykes Henson, The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry, →ISBN, page 2013:


sensationalistically

sensationalistically (comparative more sensationalistically, superlative most sensationalistically)

more sensationalistically (comparative)
most sensationalistically (superlative)


jokily

jokily (comparative more jokily, superlative most jokily)

more jokily (comparative)
most jokily (superlative)


unsurely

unsurely (comparative more unsurely, superlative most unsurely)

more unsurely (comparative)
most unsurely (superlative)

I also look over at Tim, then at Courtney and then at Tim again, who looks at me once more before answering slowly, unsurely, "Cactus pear."

1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN:


spookily

spookily (comparative more spookily, superlative most spookily)

more spookily (comparative)
most spookily (superlative)


anteroposteriorly

The nonpregnant uterus has the shape of a pear, compressed anteroposteriorly and bent forward upon its neck.

1959, Fred Albert Mettler, The Medical Sourcebook, page 669:

The neural spine is about 120 mm long anteroposteriorly at the base, while it is only about 13 mm thick.

1997, University of Michigan. Museum of Paleontology, Contributions, volume 30, page 67:

(biology) Along the anteroposterior axis


off-target

off-target (comparative more off-target, superlative most off-target)

more off-target (comparative)
most off-target (superlative)


squishily

squishily (comparative more squishily, superlative most squishily)

more squishily (comparative)
most squishily (superlative)


unemotionally

unemotionally (comparative more unemotionally, superlative most unemotionally)

more unemotionally (comparative)
most unemotionally (superlative)


subnormally

subnormally (comparative more subnormally, superlative most subnormally)

more subnormally (comparative)
most subnormally (superlative)


supernormally

supernormally (comparative more supernormally, superlative most supernormally)

more supernormally (comparative)
most supernormally (superlative)


occultly

occultly (comparative more occultly, superlative most occultly)

more occultly (comparative)
most occultly (superlative)


spatiotemporally

For instance, an idiosyncratic necessitist might claim that even if a river were not spatiotemporally located, it would still be ugly or beautiful in ways that do not supervene on anything else.

2018, Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Mark McCullagh, editors, Williamson on Modality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123:

Again, at a more detailed or more fine-grained scale of measurement, other spatiotemporally extended complex dynamical systems are isolatable from their larger environment, that is, those biological systems, and these systems are the cellular systems.

2020, Scott Berman, Platonism and the Objects of Science:


yowzah

Rumba and tango / Latin hustle too / Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah / I wanna boogie wit'choo

1977, “Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)”, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, Kenny Lehman (music), performed by Chic:

"Hey-y-y, Getane!" Someone yelling for me at the main dome. It was Mesquite.
"Yowzah!"
"You comin to the meetin, or what?"
"I'se comin Massa Mesquite, jus ez fas ez Ah kin!"

1980, Paul McHugh, The Search for Goodbye-To-Rains: a novel:

Then he mimicked an American accent. “Step right up folks, yowzah, yowzah, right this way to see the geek and his bearded bride. […]"

2007, Dean R. Anast, The Deeper Sinn, page 59:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


indistinguishably

indistinguishably (comparative more indistinguishably, superlative most indistinguishably)

more indistinguishably (comparative)
most indistinguishably (superlative)

Mrs. Seal wandered about with newspaper cuttings, which seemed to her either "quite splendid" or "really too bad for words." She used to paste these into books, or send them to her friends, having first drawn a broad bar in blue pencil down the margin, a proceeding which signified equally and indistinguishably the depths of her reprobation or the heights of her approval.

1919 October 20, Virginia Woolf, chapter VI, in Night and Day, London: Duckworth and Company […], →OCLC, page 81:

In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.


cap in hand

From the act of removing one's headwear in a sign of respect or submission. Attested from the 19th century.

No longer were we required to go cap in hand to the banks if we wanted money: they were coming to us.

He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; […]

1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], chapter 1, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC:

But with income from fares largely wiped out, it has come at a price. TfL had to go cap-in-hand to central Government for money. In doing so, it had to agree to changes - interference, if you prefer that choice of word - that it previously would have resisted.

2020 July 15, Mike Brown talks to Paul Clifton, “Leading London's "hidden heroes"”, in Rail, page 42:

The notion that London will go cap in hand for a bailout too big for the IMF to deliver is absurd.

2022 October 5, Yanis Varoufakis, “Is This the End of ‘Socialism for the Rich’?”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-10-15:

(idiomatic) In a humble and respectful manner.


endothelially

endothelially (comparative more endothelially, superlative most endothelially)

more endothelially (comparative)
most endothelially (superlative)

enzymes bound endothelially

an endothelially-lined space

By, from, or in relation to the endothelium


entropically

entropically stable

an entropically-driven process


obstetrically

an obstetrically normal patient


familially

familially (comparative more familially, superlative most familially)

more familially (comparative)
most familially (superlative)

familially related

familially shared

a familially-grounded culture


tantalisingly

tantalisingly (comparative more tantalisingly, superlative most tantalisingly)

more tantalisingly (comparative)
most tantalisingly (superlative)

City have lost two previous semi-finals to Real but they made no mistake here at a joyous Etihad Stadium to now stand one step away from claiming the trophy that has always stayed tantalisingly out of reach for Pep Guardiola's team.

2023 May 17, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 4 - 0 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:

In a tantalising manner. Alternative spelling of tantalizingly


antisunward

antisunward (comparative more antisunward, superlative most antisunward)

more antisunward (comparative)
most antisunward (superlative)


spicily

spicily (comparative more spicily, superlative most spicily)

more spicily (comparative)
most spicily (superlative)


this evening

Normally I stay at home in the evening, but this evening I'm going to the movies.


concludingly

concludingly (comparative more concludingly, superlative most concludingly)

more concludingly (comparative)
most concludingly (superlative)

Quoted in SIR KENELME DIGBY,—II. His Writings in The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 183 (Volume XXIX New Series, June 1848), page 603, as:
And, … let me recommend to you not onely to examine whether the opinion you meet with in your reading, repugnant to what you were formerly imbued with, be concludingly demonstrated or no, but likewise examine as strictly the reason you have for your own; and when the scale weighs heaviest give your assent.
Quoted by Samuel Johnson in A Dictionary of the English Language (London, 1755) in support of his definition of concludingly as "with uncontrovertible evidence" as:
Examine whether the opinion you meet with, repugnant to what you were formerly embued with, be concludingly demonstrated or not. Digby
This appears to be the basis of many online citation, which fail to identify "Digby" more closely.

Sir Kenelm Digby, Letters between the Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelme Digby concerning Religion, London, 1651

In a concluding manner; finally; conclusively.


condemnatorily

condemnatorily (comparative more condemnatorily, superlative most condemnatorily)

more condemnatorily (comparative)
most condemnatorily (superlative)

In a condemnatory fashion; condemningly.


condemningly

condemningly (comparative more condemningly, superlative most condemningly)

more condemningly (comparative)
most condemningly (superlative)


uxorially

Clerical husbands who have been uxorially driven by wives who wielded their father's croziers, so to say, have been known to jib — nay, to kick out...

1881, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, Side-lights on English Society:

Every contact with the affairs of the world, save uxorially, was changed...

...her husband may in fact have come as an outside intruder into her already established and maternally and uxorially oriented realm.

1992, Jean H Hagstrum, Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare:


concernedly

concernedly (comparative more concernedly, superlative most concernedly)

more concernedly (comparative)
most concernedly (superlative)

Portia was still tapping at her arm concernedly.

2022, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory, Tor, page 270:


concentricly

concentricly (comparative more concentricly, superlative most concentricly)

more concentricly (comparative)
most concentricly (superlative)

Stimulation of scutellaris during ontogeny by high temperature merely reduces the markings concentricly.

1915, Charles Zeleny, Studies on the Factors Controlling the Rate of Regeneration:

Regions grow concentricly, meaning that the adjacent pixels to be merged simultaneously are all those neighboring the current region.

1997, Ishwar K Sethi, Ramesh Jain, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI:

In section III the oracles of doom and the oracles of hope are arranged concentricly.

2001, Jan A Wagenaar, Judgement and Salvation: The Composition and Redaction of Micah 2-5:

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of concentrically


vampirically

vampirically (comparative more vampirically, superlative most vampirically)

more vampirically (comparative)
most vampirically (superlative)

She believed that the seance was an arena in which power was vampirically transferred between medium and spirit.

1991, Philip Shaw, Peter Stockwell, Subjectivity and Literature from the Romantics to the Present Day:


concerningly

concerningly (comparative more concerningly, superlative most concerningly)

more concerningly (comparative)
most concerningly (superlative)

More concerningly, the major protagonist of this section is not a recognizable character but an archetypal, invisible villain — AIDS.

1994, Ian Lucas, Impertinent Decorum: Gay Theatrical Manoeuvres:

In a manner that causes concern; worryingly.


stroboscopically

a stroboscopically-illuminated target


nonresonantly

nonresonantly excited atoms


more suo

This argument about cheapness was the one with which she most successfully met Theobald, who grumbled more suo that he had no sympathy with his son's extravagance and conceit.

1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter LIV, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 249:

There has been something like a personal conflict between Fadge and the man who looks after the minor notices. Fadge, more suo, charged the other man with a design to damage him and the paper.

1891, George Gissing, “Holiday”, in New Grub Street […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 62:


clannishly

clannishly (comparative more clannishly, superlative most clannishly)

more clannishly (comparative)
most clannishly (superlative)


womanfully

womanfully (comparative more womanfully, superlative most womanfully)

more womanfully (comparative)
most womanfully (superlative)

She manfully struggled on, however — womanfully would perhaps be a stronger and more appropriate word. She had to calculate not only how to play her own hand correctly, but she had to calculate on her partner's probable errors.

1859, Anthony Trollope, The Bertrams, page 264:


howsomedever

But howsomedever, that's nither here nor thar, as the fellow said.

1844, The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 10, page 46:


vectorially

vectorially-secreted protein

a vectorially-normed space

By or in relation to a vector (in any sense)


unidirectionally

unidirectionally aligned composites

In a single direction; in a unidirectional fashion


hissingly

hissingly (comparative more hissingly, superlative most hissingly)

more hissingly (comparative)
most hissingly (superlative)

He lingered hissingly over the word.

1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 27, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:


affordably

affordably (comparative more affordably, superlative most affordably)

more affordably (comparative)
most affordably (superlative)

In an affordable manner; to an affordable degree


damagingly

damagingly (comparative more damagingly, superlative most damagingly)

more damagingly (comparative)
most damagingly (superlative)


buzzingly

buzzingly (comparative more buzzingly, superlative most buzzingly)

more buzzingly (comparative)
most buzzingly (superlative)

After receiving the charge with every mark of derision, the pupils formed in line and buzzingly passed a ragged book from hand to hand.

1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter X:


bli neder

I will do this bli neder.

A qualification of an undertaking to do something, such that the commitment does not include the strength of a vow.


unsustainably

unsustainably (comparative more unsustainably, superlative most unsustainably)

more unsustainably (comparative)
most unsustainably (superlative)


bifacially

a bifacially flaked point


peripherad

peripherad (comparative more peripherad, superlative most peripherad)

more peripherad (comparative)
most peripherad (superlative)


shambolically

shambolically (comparative more shambolically, superlative most shambolically)

more shambolically (comparative)
most shambolically (superlative)


immunohistochemically

The cells were stained immunohistochemically.

By means of or in regard to immunohistochemistry


mythologically

mythologically (comparative more mythologically, superlative most mythologically)

more mythologically (comparative)
most mythologically (superlative)


karyotypically

a karyotypically normal cell line


intercellularly

Like rhizobia, Frankia strains can enter the roots of their host plants either intracellularly, via root hairs, or intercellularly, depending on the host plant species.

2005, J.K. Vessey et al., “Root-based N2-fixing symbioses”, in Lambers & Colmer, editors, Root Physiology, →ISBN, page 59:

(biology) Between cells; in an intercellular fashion


convergently

convergently (comparative more convergently, superlative most convergently)

more convergently (comparative)
most convergently (superlative)


heterotrophically

heterotrophically (comparative more heterotrophically, superlative most heterotrophically)

more heterotrophically (comparative)
most heterotrophically (superlative)


nonlinearly

The probability of a mistake rises nonlinearly with the number of steps.

1996, Craig Loehle, Thinking Strategically, →ISBN, page 56:

(mathematics) In a nonlinear fashion; often specifically exponentially


ever since

I started smoking last year, and have coughed ever since.

I started smoking last year and have been coughing ever since.

I haven't met her ever since.

(duration) Continuously since a specified time or event.

sit ewig

continuously since a specified time or event


nonautonomously

Because of this, a person's activities will always lack value when his government has induced him to pursue them nonautonomously; but they will not always lack value when his government has not induced him to pursue them nonautonomously.

2002, George Sher, “Liberal neutrality and the value of autonomy”, in G.W. Smith, editor, Liberalism, →ISBN, page 166:

In a manner that is not autonomous, or that lacks autonomy


asearch

asearch (comparative more asearch, superlative most asearch)

more asearch (comparative)
most asearch (superlative)

/əˈsɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃ/

Assured henceforth, where'er I go
Asearch tho' loftiest solitude,
Or in the thundering Vatican,
There's naught sublime but Man!

a. 1904, Ira Billman, "The Birthplace of Sublimity", in, 1904, Songs of All Seasons, The Hollenbeck Press, page 181 http://google.com/books?id=sd00AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA181&dq=asearch

Great sons were they, when race leapt into moods,
Cultures and teachers even as in our day,—
Who come asearch for truth, discover it,
And so hang new suns 'cross the human way.

a. 1907, Martha Virginia Burton, "Under Gold Helmets", in, 1907, Sons of the Sun, Bessette & Son, page 91 http://google.com/books?id=yIg0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA91&dq=asearch

Swift as light-flash o' storm, swift, swift, / Would I send the wish o' thine asearch.

1916, Casper Salathiel Yost with Pearl Lenore and Pollard Curran, Patience Worth: a psychic mystery, page 283:


nihilistically

nihilistically (comparative more nihilistically, superlative most nihilistically)

more nihilistically (comparative)
most nihilistically (superlative)


Turkishly

Turkishly (comparative more Turkishly, superlative most Turkishly)

more Turkishly (comparative)
most Turkishly (superlative)

And the Pope himself, if he were Turkishly inclined, and wished to remove from the malaria of Rome to the delightful climate of Constantinople […]


neurotypically

neurotypically (comparative more neurotypically, superlative most neurotypically)

more neurotypically (comparative)
most neurotypically (superlative)


anticipatorily

anticipatorily (comparative more anticipatorily, superlative most anticipatorily)

more anticipatorily (comparative)
most anticipatorily (superlative)


intoxicatedly

intoxicatedly (comparative more intoxicatedly, superlative most intoxicatedly)

more intoxicatedly (comparative)
most intoxicatedly (superlative)


unbreathably

It was unbreathably hot.

In such a way that breathing is difficult or impossible.


friendlessly

Without a friend; in a friendless manner.


postinfection

14 days postinfection the control cell culture exhibited many inclusions that were arranged in clusters of 5 to 10 neighbouring cells.

1990, A. Clad et al., “Genital Isolates of Chlamydia trachomatis Survive 12 day Antibiotic Treatment in Vitro Due to Delayed Cell Lysis”, in William Robert Bowie, editor, Chlamydial Infections, →ISBN, page 524:


paperlessly

...all the components of an insurance claim form can be sent paperlessly from one location to another.

1995, Allison Morgese, EDI Primer for the Dental Office:

Work as paperlessly as possible. Do you really need to print out a copy of every single document that you create on your computer?

2005, Paul Edwards, Sarah Edwards, Peter Economy, Home-Based Business For Dummies:


proleptically

proleptically (comparative more proleptically, superlative most proleptically)

more proleptically (comparative)
most proleptically (superlative)

From proleptic + -ally or proleptical + -ly.

When we name an event, calling it fire, we speak proleptically; we do not name an immediate event; that is impossible. We employ a term of discourse; we invoke a meaning, namely, the potential consequence of the existence.

1925, John Dewey. Experience and Nature In The Later Works of John Dewey, Vol. 1, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale (IL), p. 150

Fullerton, in real life apparently a magnetic, equal opportunity Lothario[…]is written here[…] as more of a puppy than a hound, making campy references to Wharton by her childhood name, Pussy Jones, and proleptically quoting Mae West.

2021 July 28, Jesse Green, “Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


peerlessly

The laughs start percolating after the wives split, natch, and their husbands, accompanied by a troika of jesters — Gary (the peerlessly funny Stephen Merchant), […]

2011 February 24, Manohla Dargis, “Man-Child in the Promised Land, for a Whole (Pant! Pant!) Week”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


quakily

quakily (comparative more quakily, superlative most quakily)

more quakily (comparative)
most quakily (superlative)


schmaltzily

schmaltzily (comparative more schmaltzily, superlative most schmaltzily)

more schmaltzily (comparative)
most schmaltzily (superlative)


schmalzily

schmalzily (comparative more schmalzily, superlative most schmalzily)

more schmalzily (comparative)
most schmalzily (superlative)


earthily

earthily (comparative more earthily, superlative most earthily)

more earthily (comparative)
most earthily (superlative)


tartily

tartily (comparative more tartily, superlative most tartily)

more tartily (comparative)
most tartily (superlative)

a tartily short skirt


sluttily

sluttily (comparative more sluttily, superlative most sluttily)

more sluttily (comparative)
most sluttily (superlative)

In a modern world where a substantial number of particularly young women behave as boorishly, vulgarly, and sluttily as uncouth men do, falling on one's sword is not a logical reaction from men.

2002, Laura Schlessinger (quoting a correspondent, "Herb"), Ten Stupid Things Couples Do to Mess Up Their Relationships (page 6)


vampishly

vampishly (comparative more vampishly, superlative most vampishly)

more vampishly (comparative)
most vampishly (superlative)


sluttishly

sluttishly (comparative more sluttishly, superlative most sluttishly)

more sluttishly (comparative)
most sluttishly (superlative)


rummily

rummily (comparative more rummily, superlative most rummily)

more rummily (comparative)
most rummily (superlative)

Rather rummily, that's exactly what I was thinking just now myself.

(UK, colloquial, dated) In a rum fashion; oddly, strangely.


chavtastically

chavtastically (comparative more chavtastically, superlative most chavtastically)

more chavtastically (comparative)
most chavtastically (superlative)

(slang, derogatory) In a chavtastic manner.


bihourly

In that office, they meet bihourly.


astrally

astrally (comparative more astrally, superlative most astrally)

more astrally (comparative)
most astrally (superlative)


apsidally

apsidally (comparative more apsidally, superlative most apsidally)

more apsidally (comparative)
most apsidally (superlative)

The roof was terminated apsidally.

(architecture) With regard to or by means of an apse or apses

The planet's orbit is aspidally aligned with the dust disk.

(astrophysics) With regard to or in relation to an apsis, the point at which an orbiting object is at its minimum or maximum distance from the orbited object


capacitively

In general, low capacitance input transistors are preferable, and systems where the total capacitance at the input is dominated by the detector capacitance are more efficient than systems that are capacitively matched.

2005, Helmuth Spieler, Semiconductor Detector Systems, →ISBN, page 267:

(physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance


valuably

valuably (comparative more valuably, superlative most valuably)

more valuably (comparative)
most valuably (superlative)

Come in today and learn how valuably this refrigerator will serve you

1930 April 14, “(Advertisement)”, in The Victoria Advocate, Victoria, page 32:

In a valuable way, or in a way that adds value


æsthetically

æsthetically (comparative more æsthetically, superlative most æsthetically)

more æsthetically (comparative)
most æsthetically (superlative)


adays

From Middle English a- + day + -s (“genitive ending”), from Old English a (“on”) + dæges (genitive of "day").

(obsolete) Nowadays; in the present time period.


detectably

detectably (comparative more detectably, superlative most detectably)

more detectably (comparative)
most detectably (superlative)

A new executive does not detectably change corporate culture.


from now on

Starting from this moment and continuing indefinitely.


affectionally

affectionally (comparative more affectionally, superlative most affectionally)

more affectionally (comparative)
most affectionally (superlative)


gesturally

We've barely begun to scratch the surface of the notion that highly complex and subtle ideas can be communicated gesturally.

1979 August 25, Vicki Gabriner, Susan Freundlich, “Bridging the Gaps between Deaf and Hearing Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 9:


all too

Teenage pregnancies are all too common in the UK.

Sexism is all too familiar in this department.

They were all too ready to sell their stories to the press.

It was over all too soon.

a robot will not be subject to all-too-human fits of anger, sadism or cruelty.

2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian:

And you call me up again just to break me like a promise
So casually cruel in the name of being honest
I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
'Cause I remember it all, all, all too well

2011, Taylor Swift (lyrics and music), “All Too Well”:

Very, extremely; thoroughly but lamentably; excessively.


smarmily

smarmily (comparative more smarmily, superlative most smarmily)

more smarmily (comparative)
most smarmily (superlative)


secularly

secularly (comparative more secularly, superlative most secularly)

more secularly (comparative)
most secularly (superlative)


posttranslationally

The conversion occurred posttranslationally.


heere

Obsolete spelling of here., see also heereby


southernly

southernly (comparative more southernly, superlative most southernly)

more southernly (comparative)
most southernly (superlative)

[…] the said river flowed in a southernly direction, and thence around said Dean's Island, and at or about the southwest end thereof the river turned […]

1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 856:

[…] thence in a southernly direction in the center line of Alabama street to the center line of Fifteenth street; thence in an easternly direction in the […]

1904, Indianapolis (Indiana), The General Ordinances of the City of Indianapolis, page 244

“The good Lord seemed fond of sending us southerners many trials!” Christa murmured, […] “We were ever in sympathy with our more southernly sisters!”

2012, Heather Graham, And One Rode West: A Novel, Loveswept, →ISBN, page 265:

Mama and Daddy, being typical southerners, had also taught us to politely [offer food] […] [I] only politely offer Phe Phe a slice of my apple to fulfill my southernly duty.

2013, Dr. M. Jeanne Dolphus Cotton, Core' S. Cotton, A Three Hundred and Sixty -Degree Perspective: A Mother - Daughter Journey of Come Here Meets Been There, →ISBN:

Our school experience was blissfully and southernly white.

2017, Ginny Wilder, All My Words Have Holes in Them: Simple Daily Meditations, Church Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 92:

In a Southern manner, in a way typical of a Southerner or of the South (the southern United States).


tailor-fashion

From the traditional sitting posture of tailors.
Compare tailor's bunion, tailor's muscle.


Indian style

Probably from the Indian lotus position (compare Polish siedzieć po turecku and Romanian ședea turcește which mean "to sit in a Turkish style", in reference to the Turks' similar sitting style), or possibly from the way some Native American Indians (indigenous peoples of the Americas) sat.


criss-cross applesauce

Etymology
Rhyming on criss-cross, particularly with a word familiar to children and teachers, possibly with similarity to lap forming a bowl.
Apparently originated in the 1990s US, as an alternative for Indian style.
Compare also traditional children’s rhyming game / massage (rhyme said while touching, tickling, and blowing), which goes:
: Criss, cross. Apple sauce.
: Spiders climbing up your back.
: Spiders here, Spiders there.
: Spiders even in your hair.
: Cool breeze,
: Tight squeeze,
: And now you have the shivers.
: Brrrrrrr.

Sit criss-cross applesauce.

(childish, US, regional, idiomatic) (of sitting): Cross-legged.


proly

Ninja: BS. 3.14R8S? Wind: Proly.

2008, Douglas Sarine, The Ninja Handbook, Random house, page 252:

(Internet slang, leetspeak) Abbreviation of probably.


unsubtly

unsubtly (comparative more unsubtly, superlative most unsubtly)

more unsubtly (comparative)
most unsubtly (superlative)


unusably

unusably (comparative more unusably, superlative most unusably)

more unusably (comparative)
most unusably (superlative)

Hydrogenation allowed manufacturers to make a butter substitute that spreads easily even at refrigerator temperature, where butter is unusably hard.

2004, Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking:


owlishly

owlishly (comparative more owlishly, superlative most owlishly)

more owlishly (comparative)
most owlishly (superlative)

To the muzzy drumming of beer in his veins he gazed long and owlishly at the sombre cottage[.]

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 112:

He gazed owlishly down at his confederates and they gazed owlishly back at him.

In an owlish manner, especially with regard to looking.


handedly

handedly (comparative more handedly, superlative most handedly)

more handedly (comparative)
most handedly (superlative)

The squirt was hitting 25-foot jumpers handedly, although she wasn't one for that whole dribbling thing.

2004, Michael Hilburn, Travel Diary, Bolivia, Trafford Publishing, illustrated, page 75

In the end, there was nothing that Frost could do to defeat Sessions, who won handedly by 56 to 44 percent.

2005, Sunil Ahuja, Robert E. Dewhirst, The Road to Congress 2004, Nova Publishers,, →ISBN, page 49:

SK won handedly, placing 5ᵗʰ in the nation on this night.

2006, D. Blue, S. K. Black, The Velvet Machine: A Plush Collection of Unshaven Essays, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 185:

(nonstandard) Easily; with ease; misconstruction of handily.


tandemly

a tandemly repeated DNA sequence


synaptically

In this slide you see a pair of synaptically connected neurons.

(medicine, neurology) At or by means of a synapse


addictingly

addictingly (comparative more addictingly, superlative most addictingly)

more addictingly (comparative)
most addictingly (superlative)

HTML markup is addictingly fun to experiment with, and straightforward to create

1996, Kevin Dowd, Getting Connected: The Internet at 56K and Up, page 330:

As dreary as that sounds, as complex and ambiguous as the stories can be, "Nip/Tuck" is addictingly entertaining: brisk, clever and whimsical.

2004 June 21, “'Nip/Tuck' is nifty slice of television”, in Sacramento Bee:

Lizano, a thick green herb sauce that is neither hot nor spicy, is an addictingly good condiment.

2006 January 25, “Central American Cuisine Sizzles with Fresh Iingredients”, in Centre Daily Times, State College, PA:


cytogenetically

The fetus was cytogenetically normal.

(medicine, biology) By means or in terms of cytogenetics, the genetics of the cell


homogenously

homogenously (comparative more homogenously, superlative most homogenously)

more homogenously (comparative)
most homogenously (superlative)

The ingredients were mixed together homogenously.

In a homogenous manner, or in a way that ensures homogeneity


maudlinly

maudlinly (comparative more maudlinly, superlative most maudlinly)

more maudlinly (comparative)
most maudlinly (superlative)


pulpily

pulpily (comparative more pulpily, superlative most pulpily)

more pulpily (comparative)
most pulpily (superlative)


sicklily

sicklily (comparative more sicklily, superlative most sicklily)

more sicklily (comparative)
most sicklily (superlative)

He grinned sicklily, turning away his head. She had got his manhood, but Lord, what did he care!


jaw-droppingly

jaw-droppingly (comparative more jaw-droppingly, superlative most jaw-droppingly)

more jaw-droppingly (comparative)
most jaw-droppingly (superlative)

In a jaw-dropping manner; shockingly, astoundingly.


suicidally

suicidally (comparative more suicidally, superlative most suicidally)

more suicidally (comparative)
most suicidally (superlative)

My father did not magnanimously toss fish to the admiring multitudes, and most likely he did not beckon to the catfish, which then leapt suicidally into our boat.

1999, Michael Pearson, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, page 56:

“Misled how?” I toss this over in my mind as my fork tosses the murg phall, a suicidally hot Bangalore-style chicken curry designed for masochistic European taste, slowly oxidizing in my plate.

2010, Donald W. Bacon, Followed by Madness:

To accusations that her leap from her prison tower was suicidally motivated, she replies scornfully that anybody with any sense prefers to try for freedom instead of remaining in prison.

1984, Sharon Scholl, Death and the Humanities, page 154:

There can be a suicidally motivated parent who wishes to take the children with him or her.

2007, John H. Trestrail, III, Criminal Poisoning, page 63:


intraperitoneally

The test substance was injected intraperitoneally.


mesodermally

a mesodermally derived tissue


schoolgirlishly

schoolgirlishly (comparative more schoolgirlishly, superlative most schoolgirlishly)

more schoolgirlishly (comparative)
most schoolgirlishly (superlative)

Then she ran, schoolgirlishly, to join her friends.

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 55:


reactively

reactively (comparative more reactively, superlative most reactively)

more reactively (comparative)
most reactively (superlative)

The infant responds reactively to stimuli.

The films were reactively bonded.

(chemistry) In relation to or by means of a reaction.


unwatchably

unwatchably (comparative more unwatchably, superlative most unwatchably)

more unwatchably (comparative)
most unwatchably (superlative)

The images it captures may be blurred, unintelligible or unwatchably tedious.

1999, Peter Conrad, Modern Times, Modern Places:


joylessly

joylessly (comparative more joylessly, superlative most joylessly)

more joylessly (comparative)
most joylessly (superlative)


gauzily

gauzily (comparative more gauzily, superlative most gauzily)

more gauzily (comparative)
most gauzily (superlative)


suspensefully

suspensefully (comparative more suspensefully, superlative most suspensefully)

more suspensefully (comparative)
most suspensefully (superlative)


orbitally

Patterns of glaciation have been orbitally influenced.

The task of population estimation differs in three important respects from many other applications of orbitally acquired data.

2002, J.T. Harvey, “Estimating census district populations from satellite imagery”, in International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 23, number 10:

(sciences) By means of or in relation to orbit

The e_g levels, or bands, in which the charge carriers move are orbitally degenerate.

1999, Jeroen van den Brink, Daniel Khomskii, “Double Exchange via Degenerate Orbitals”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 82, number 5:

(physics, chemistry) By means of or in relation to an orbital or orbitals


to-date

to-date (comparative more to-date, superlative most to-date)

more to-date (comparative)
most to-date (superlative)


on-screen

“Asian women on-screen, especially in America and Hollywood, have been so sexualized and fetishized for the benefit of other people’s stories or jokes,” Ashley says. “And we’re like, ‘We’re gonna go balls to the wall, further than anyone’s gone with Asian women.’”

2023 June 15, Kat Moon, “Ashley Park’s Main Character Energy From ‘Joy Ride’ Is Here To Stay: ‘I’m Treating Myself Like A Lead Now’”, in Women's Health:


unstylishly

unstylishly (comparative more unstylishly, superlative most unstylishly)

more unstylishly (comparative)
most unstylishly (superlative)


baroquely

baroquely (comparative more baroquely, superlative most baroquely)

more baroquely (comparative)
most baroquely (superlative)


pseudoscientifically

pseudoscientifically (comparative more pseudoscientifically, superlative most pseudoscientifically)

more pseudoscientifically (comparative)
most pseudoscientifically (superlative)

From pseudoscientific + -ally or pseudo- + scientifically.

...the pseudoscientifically backed racist ideology about Jews...


parkward

Autumn appeared; people flew away from summer resorts like so many leaves before the wind; the roll of carriages parkward began anew...

There are also many smaller intervening play and rest areas to entice the parkward-bound into pausing there instead.

1971, Alexander Klein, Empire City: A Treasury of New York:


fierily

fierily (comparative more fierily, superlative most fierily)

more fierily (comparative)
most fierily (superlative)

The mountain-ash berries across the field stood fierily out from the dark leaves, for a moment.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:

Hypnotized, my eyes stared at the small bulge made by that book inside the pocket, they gazed fierily at that one inconspicuous spot as if to burn a hole in the coat.

2006, Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell, Chess, Penguin:


execrably

execrably (comparative more execrably, superlative most execrably)

more execrably (comparative)
most execrably (superlative)


retrogradely

retrogradely (comparative more retrogradely, superlative most retrogradely)

more retrogradely (comparative)
most retrogradely (superlative)

proteins migrating retrogradely


anterogradely

anterogradely (comparative more anterogradely, superlative most anterogradely)

more anterogradely (comparative)
most anterogradely (superlative)


blurrily

blurrily (comparative more blurrily, superlative most blurrily)

more blurrily (comparative)
most blurrily (superlative)

Without my glasses, I could only blurrily see what was happening.


unswervingly

unswervingly (comparative more unswervingly, superlative most unswervingly)

more unswervingly (comparative)
most unswervingly (superlative)

He followed his course unswervingly.


postcareer

I don't have any firm plans postcareer.

Following the end of one's current or primary career


anticyclonically

anticyclonically (comparative more anticyclonically, superlative most anticyclonically)

more anticyclonically (comparative)
most anticyclonically (superlative)

(meteorology) In an anticyclonic fashion.


ghastlily

ghastlily (comparative more ghastlily, superlative most ghastlily)

more ghastlily (comparative)
most ghastlily (superlative)


anti-clockwise

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anticlockwise.


robotically

robotically (comparative more robotically, superlative most robotically)

more robotically (comparative)
most robotically (superlative)

From robotic + -ally or robotical + -ly.


gospelly

gospelly (comparative more gospelly, superlative most gospelly)

more gospelly (comparative)
most gospelly (superlative)

The Ceremonies cease, but yet the Creede / Contained therein, continues gospelly, / That make my feeble Spirits will grow frim.

1698, Edward Taylor, “Meditation 25”, in The Poems of Edward Taylor, UNC, published 1989, →ISBN, page 129:

(archaic, Christianity) In the manner of the Gospel


virtuosically

virtuosically (comparative more virtuosically, superlative most virtuosically)

more virtuosically (comparative)
most virtuosically (superlative)

(chiefly music) In the manner of a virtuoso; with virtuosity


moar

(Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of more


howso

From Middle English how-so; equivalent to how + so.


piratically

piratically (comparative more piratically, superlative most piratically)

more piratically (comparative)
most piratically (superlative)

From pirate + -ically; attested earlier than piratical; equivalent to piratical + -ly.

...the mariners then navigating the said vessel upon the said voyage, maliciously, wilfully, feloniously, and piratically did make an assault...

1876, Great Britain Parliament, Parliamentary Papers:


inbounds

She passed the ball inbounds.


bogglingly

bogglingly (comparative more bogglingly, superlative most bogglingly)

more bogglingly (comparative)
most bogglingly (superlative)

It was bogglingly complex, with 212 speaking parts, more than 1000 camera setups, 95 scenes, 15 separate film stocks, and endless intercuts and flashbacks -- "everything but footnotes," Stone joked.

1992, Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar, JFK: The Book of the Film, published 2006, →ISBN, page 220:

In a stupefying manner or to a stupefying degree.

The prisoner rises with a bit of paper in his hand, and slowly and bogglingly reads from it what has been written down for him to say, and what is delivered thus, reads to the public in the newspaper report like shrewd spontaneous suggestions.

1863 December 26, “Court-Martial”, in All The Year Round, page 422:

While boggling; with an amazed expression.


circumferentially

The pipes were cracked circumferentially.

In a way that encircles; around the circumference.


colourfully

colourfully (comparative more colourfully, superlative most colourfully)

more colourfully (comparative)
most colourfully (superlative)


biallelically

These genes are expressed biallelically.


chicly

chicly (comparative more chicly, superlative most chicly)

more chicly (comparative)
most chicly (superlative)

She was chicly attired in a black dress.

To my great joy there were two smart casual dresses in pastels – pale pink and pale yellow – both brand new with little puffed sleeves and full, gathered skirts set into chicly dropped waists.

1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), pages 116–117:


oftest

(chiefly poetic, dialect) Most often (superlative form of oft: most oft)


growingly

growingly (comparative more growingly, superlative most growingly)

more growingly (comparative)
most growingly (superlative)

This society is growingly democratic.


mythically

mythically (comparative more mythically, superlative most mythically)

more mythically (comparative)
most mythically (superlative)

The philosophy of ancient times was often expressed mythically.


gamily

The grouse was gamily delicious.

In a gamy way; while being or tasting gamy


milkily

milkily (comparative more milkily, superlative most milkily)

more milkily (comparative)
most milkily (superlative)

The fog flowed milkily along the valley.


suffocatingly

suffocatingly (comparative more suffocatingly, superlative most suffocatingly)

more suffocatingly (comparative)
most suffocatingly (superlative)

The hall was suffocatingly crowded.

[...] then, after about ½-mile of level through Pilning the climb is resumed at 1 in 100 for another three miles, including over a mile through a suffocatingly smoky single line tunnel (the down line being on a different and steeper location) to Patchway station.

1962 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 246:

In a suffocating manner, or to a degree that suffocates


kinesthetically

kinesthetically (comparative more kinesthetically, superlative most kinesthetically)

more kinesthetically (comparative)
most kinesthetically (superlative)

Children can be taught visually, auditorily, or kinesthetically.

In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics


enduringly

enduringly (comparative more enduringly, superlative most enduringly)

more enduringly (comparative)
most enduringly (superlative)

The painter's works were enduringly popular.

In an enduring manner or fashion; so as to endure or last.


encyclopedically

encyclopedically (comparative more encyclopedically, superlative most encyclopedically)

more encyclopedically (comparative)
most encyclopedically (superlative)

All related topics are encyclopedically addressed.

In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.


cotemporally

While some proteins clearly contain in their sequence all the information necessary to refold properly even after complete denaturation, others require the presence of membranes cotemporally with biosynthesis to ensure proper folding and insertion.

1986, B. A. Wallace et al., “Evaluation of Methods for the Prediction of Membrane Protein Secondary Structures”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 83, number 24, page 9423:


leaguewide

This policy will apply leaguewide.


porously

porously (comparative more porously, superlative most porously)

more porously (comparative)
most porously (superlative)

The porously dried material was ready.

In a porous way; allowing liquid or gas to pass through.


unrecognisably

(chiefly British) Alternative spelling of unrecognizably.


unrecognizably

The world is unrecognizably different since Plato's time.


scrappily

scrappily (comparative more scrappily, superlative most scrappily)

more scrappily (comparative)
most scrappily (superlative)

The team played scrappily, even though everyone expected them to lose.


heartbreakingly

heartbreakingly (comparative more heartbreakingly, superlative most heartbreakingly)

more heartbreakingly (comparative)
most heartbreakingly (superlative)

They lost heartbreakingly, with an own goal in the last minute of the match.


narratively

narratively (comparative more narratively, superlative most narratively)

more narratively (comparative)
most narratively (superlative)

The book presents world history narratively.

In a narrative manner: in the form of a story

The film was technically superb but narratively muddled.


bafflingly

bafflingly (comparative more bafflingly, superlative most bafflingly)

more bafflingly (comparative)
most bafflingly (superlative)

As I tried to catch the words which the stoutly-fashioned floor so bafflingly intercepted, I was also conscious of a great deal of stirring and scratching and shuffling in the room below; so that I could not escape the impression that it was full of living beings—many more than the few whose speech I could single out.

1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

To define is to specify, to trace limits; and whatever this 'something' is, it seems at once bafflingly specific and yet bafflingly without limits.

1974, Samuel Louis Goldberg, An Essay on King Lear, →ISBN, page 162:


gratifyingly

gratifyingly (comparative more gratifyingly, superlative most gratifyingly)

more gratifyingly (comparative)
most gratifyingly (superlative)

The performance was gratifyingly well-attended.

[T]hey were available at prices his customers considered gratifyingly reasonable.

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 85:


bracingly

bracingly (comparative more bracingly, superlative most bracingly)

more bracingly (comparative)
most bracingly (superlative)

The wind was bracingly cold.

'Now all you have to do is get better,' she said bracingly, not allowing any of the fear she felt ooze into her voice.

2003, Kerry Greenwood, Death Before Wicket, →ISBN, page 129:


grindingly

grindingly (comparative more grindingly, superlative most grindingly)

more grindingly (comparative)
most grindingly (superlative)

Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 463:

It was a grindingly dull lecture.


screamingly

screamingly (comparative more screamingly, superlative most screamingly)

more screamingly (comparative)
most screamingly (superlative)

The wind howled screamingly.

"For Haughley Junction, we are talking of rising cost estimates from £15m to £30m - that's loose change in rail terms. I do think that with regard to the spending taps being loosened by the DfT, it would be good to convert projects like this. Ely North Junction is another that is screamingly important."

2020 April 22, Richard Clinnick, “"We are feeling positive"”, in Rail, page 62:


wincingly

wincingly (comparative more wincingly, superlative most wincingly)

more wincingly (comparative)
most wincingly (superlative)

"It doesn't hurt a bit," he said wincingly.

Sheffield [...] crept into bed beside him, wincingly careful not to jolt or touch the bandage.

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 311:

The speech was wincingly bad.


sculpturally

The artist expressed his ideas sculpturally.


geothermally

geothermally (comparative more geothermally, superlative most geothermally)

more geothermally (comparative)
most geothermally (superlative)

The entire building is heated geothermally.

By geothermal means, especially by means of geothermal energy


cartoonishly

cartoonishly (comparative more cartoonishly, superlative most cartoonishly)

more cartoonishly (comparative)
most cartoonishly (superlative)

She smiled cartoonishly.

In a cartoonish manner; thus, in a comical or exaggerated way


cinematically

cinematically (comparative more cinematically, superlative most cinematically)

more cinematically (comparative)
most cinematically (superlative)

The film was cinematically interesting, but the story was dull.


troublingly

troublingly (comparative more troublingly, superlative most troublingly)

more troublingly (comparative)
most troublingly (superlative)

How they would pay for the project was, troublingly, left unstated.

In a troubling manner; causing one to be troubled


glancingly

glancingly (comparative more glancingly, superlative most glancingly)

more glancingly (comparative)
most glancingly (superlative)

The blow struck his opponent glancingly on the arm.


dimwittedly

dimwittedly (comparative more dimwittedly, superlative most dimwittedly)

more dimwittedly (comparative)
most dimwittedly (superlative)

Pitchfork dimwittedly chose to interview him at a gun range; following the Lil Jojo murder, it removed the interview from its Web site and apologized.

2012 October 4, Jon Caramanica, “Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


damningly

damningly (comparative more damningly, superlative most damningly)

more damningly (comparative)
most damningly (superlative)

The recordings are damningly explicit.

In contrast, Kindersley takes an approach that is closer to that of a descriptive linguist and is largely devoid of the superior tone of Goffin: where Kindersley uses the term ‘pleonastic cliché’, Goffin more damningly has ‘phrase-mongering’.

2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116:

In a damning manner, or to an extent that is damning.


trippingly

trippingly (comparative more trippingly, superlative most trippingly)

more trippingly (comparative)
most trippingly (superlative)

From Middle English tryppingly; equivalent to tripping + -ly.

The drunk stumbled trippingly down the street.

By the dead and drowsy fire / Every elf and fairy sprite / Hop as light as bird from brier, / And this ditty after me / Sing, and dance it trippingly.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

The result follows trippingly from the premise. But adopting the premise requires departing from judicial practice and principle.

2021, Edwards v. Vannoy (U.S. Supreme Court No. 19–5807), Justice Kagan dissenting


fearsomely

fearsomely (comparative more fearsomely, superlative most fearsomely)

more fearsomely (comparative)
most fearsomely (superlative)

After supper, the men sprawled in their bunks or along the deacon-seat, and fearsomely they spat and swore, and fearsomely they lied.

1967, Rober E. Pike, Tall Trees, Tough Men, published 1999, →ISBN, page 62:

In a fearsome manner, or to a fearsome extent


heretically

heretically (comparative more heretically, superlative most heretically)

more heretically (comparative)
most heretically (superlative)

Your position is heretically wrong.

In a heretical way, or to a heretical extent


shimmeringly

shimmeringly (comparative more shimmeringly, superlative most shimmeringly)

more shimmeringly (comparative)
most shimmeringly (superlative)

The day was shimmeringly hot.

[…] I caught the occasional sight of water, shimmeringly reflecting the frosty stars;

1857, Georgiana Marion Craik, chapter 2, in Riverston,, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 13:

[…] the tank was filled, to within a foot of the top, with shimmeringly brilliant white fluid […]

1931 April, Jack Williamson, “The Lake of Light”, in Astounding Stories, volume 6, number 1, page 104:

[The sun] made the window glass waver, shimmeringly twisted what hung beyond it […]

1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Random House, Part 2, p. 122:

In a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.


virally

virally (comparative more virally, superlative most virally)

more virally (comparative)
most virally (superlative)

The cells have been virally infected.

(medicine) Due to, or by means of, a virus or viruses.

The widespread use of mobile phones which support free Bluetoothing has enabled promotional videos to be distributed virally between handsets.

2009, Seema Gupta, Branding and Advertising, page 303:

In a viral fashion; often specifically in the context of viral marketing.


yobbishly

yobbishly (comparative more yobbishly, superlative most yobbishly)

more yobbishly (comparative)
most yobbishly (superlative)


termly

termly (comparative more termly, superlative most termly)

more termly (comparative)
most termly (superlative)


unilingually

The municipality of Uurainen is unilingually Finnish.


first-hand

Its primary role is to enable Network Rail's engineers, management and stakeholders to see the condition of the infrastructure and track first-hand - in the warm and dry, and in a position of safety.

2022 December 14, Pip Dunn, “Caroline is ready for inspection...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 48: