passively

Water flowed passively between tanks via the siphon.

2000, Brian D. Wisenden, “Scents of Danger”, in Animal Signals: signalling and signal design in animal communication, page 369:

Due to this pressure aortic and pulmonary valves are opened passively and due to relaxation blood is sucked from the venae cavae into the atrium.

2007, Klaus Dieter Budras et al., Anatomy of the Dog, page 188:

In a passive manner; without conscious or self-directed action.

պասսիվորեն

in a passive manner; without conscious or self-directed action

Paradoxically, the same faculty who complain about busyness are most likely to end up waiting passively. While they acquiescently wait to write, they busy themselves with other, often trivial, activities.

1997, Gary A. Olson, Todd W. Taylor, Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, page 218:

They were not waving at him but sat passively as if waiting to hear if what he had to say would be derogatory to their previous relationship.

1998, Wallace Collins, Dragon Fire, page 9:

In an acquiescent manner; resignedly or submissively.

Statements phrased in an active voice, with a few outcome-oriented goals, improve school performance more than those stated passively with either multiple goals or goals focused on processes or behaviors.

2008, Timothy J. Conlan, Alice M. Rivlin, Paul L. Posner, Intergovernmental Management for the Twenty-first Century, page 214:

(grammar) In the passive voice; having a passive construction.


vehemently

en-adv

vehemently (comparative more vehemently, superlative most vehemently)

more vehemently (comparative)
most vehemently (superlative)

vehemently opposed

The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50:

And it was a miserable afternoon for Chelsea and England captain John Terry at the end of a week in which has he faced allegations of racial abuse against QPR's Anton Ferdinand - claims he vehemently denies.

2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:

In a vehement manner; expressing with a strong or forceful attitude.


happily

happily (comparative more happily or (rare) happilier, superlative most happily or (rare) happiliest)

more happily (comparative)
happilier (comparative rare)
most happily (superlative)
happiliest (rare superlative)

From Middle English happily, happyly, happyliche, happylyche, equivalent to happy + -ly.

And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for.

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 311:

Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive.

2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and development for all”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 62:

In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.

Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

By good chance; fortunately, successfully.

I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.

With good will; in all happiness; willingly.

And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:


meanwhile

From Middle English menewhile, equivalent to mean (“intermediate”) + while. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the mean while, noun being conventionally written as one word after the adjective.

There was a party going on downstairs. Meanwhile, I was reading a book.

Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place.

We’re going on holiday next month; meanwhile, keep working on the project.

The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

1955 March 1, Winston Churchill, “Defence”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 1905:

“[…] I’m not ignoring you, I’m very sorry, I’ll talk to you soon. Meanwhile, get your tickets.”

2004, David Osterczy, Interknot: Adventures in Internet Dating, →ISBN, page 134:

During an intervening time; from now until a future time.

Some songs on the album are beautiful. Meanwhile, others are quite forgettable.

When you are in the studio you don’t have anybody to feed off of, meanwhile when you are playing live you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room.

2013 March 29, Markos Papadatos, quoting Marina Diamandis, “Marina And The Diamonds on 'How to be a Heartbreaker'”, in Greek Reporter:

In contrast to aspects previously mentioned.

imidlertid

in contrast or opposed to aspects previously mentioned


fricking

What are you fricking looking at?

He was so fricking drunk, he passed out kneeling in front of the toilet.


gleefully

gleefully (comparative more gleefully, superlative most gleefully)

more gleefully (comparative)
most gleefully (superlative)

Al Habsi, so outstanding at Arsenal on Saturday, somehow scrambled the ball off the line, but only as far as Agbonlahor, who gleefully nodded home his first Premier League goal since last April.

2011 January 25, Les Roopanarine, “Wigan 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC:


joyously

joyously (comparative more joyously, superlative most joyously)

more joyously (comparative)
most joyously (superlative)

Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward the barn, barking joyously.

1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 259:


joyfully

joyfully (comparative more joyfully, superlative most joyfully)

more joyfully (comparative)
most joyfully (superlative)

/ˈd͡ʒɔɪfəli/


next to

en-adverb

next to (comparative more next to, superlative most next to)

more next to (comparative)
most next to (superlative)

It is next to impossible to get him to admit it, but he writes very well.

The job paid next to nothing.

The Puritans who groaned under it, and so bitterly resisted when it was administered at the hands of bishops, forgot, or never knew, that it was invented, or next to invented, by the episcopal founder of Nonconformity.

1885, Richard Watson Dixon, History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction, page 465:


unjustly

en-adv

unjustly (comparative more unjustly, superlative most unjustly)

more unjustly (comparative)
most unjustly (superlative)

unjustly punished

Nowe is iuſte iuſtice, ſo iotted out of iointe, / That ye here vniuſtely, ſtande at deniall, / To do me iuſtice, and wolde by power ryall: / Directe mine acquitall or condemnacion, / Euen as wyll in both: weith your acceptacion.

1556, John Heywood, chapter 24, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 110:


morally

morally (comparative more morally, superlative most morally)

more morally (comparative)
most morally (superlative)

immorally

antonym(s) of “in keeping of requirements of morality”

Morally, it is a difficult issue to deal with.

There is no pressure to leave, Mondelez chief executive Dirk Van de Put admitted last week, claiming that investors did not “morally care” whether companies such as the Chicago-based chocolate maker did business in Russia.

2024 March 2, Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, quoting Dirk Van de Put, “Western groups stay put in Russia as war fatigue dulls outcry”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 11:

to behave morally

To all intents and purposes
to all intents and purposes

To all intents and purposes; practically.

In the short exact sequence 0#x5C;xrightarrow#x7B;q#x7D;A#x5C;xrightarrow#x7B;r#x7D;B#x5C;xrightarrow#x7B;s#x7D;C#x5C;xrightarrow#x7B;t#x7D;0, B is morally A#x5C;timesC, even if in reality the sequence may fail to split.

The data governing the deformations of X then consist of what we call a structure, which is a collection of slabs and walls: these are codimension-one polyhedral subsets of B, contained locally in affine hyperplanes, along with some attached data of a ring automorphism which is used in our gluing construction. This structure has an important tropical interpretation: morally, a structure can be viewed as a union of tropical trees in #x5C;check#x7B;B#x7D; with leaves on #x5C;Delta.

2011, Mark Gross, Bernd Siebert, “From Real Affine Geometry to Complex Geometry”, in Annals of Mathematics, page 1304:

(mathematics) Used to clarify that a statement is made in analogy, and every detail may not be strictly true.


something awful

He wants to get out of there something awful, but he just doesn't have the money.

(degree, colloquial, idiomatic) Intensely or extremely; badly; in the worst way.


calmly

calmly (comparative more calmly, superlative most calmly)

more calmly (comparative)
most calmly (superlative)

She ran to the door and there beheld the ragged street urchin calmly playing his organ.

1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84:


respectively

respectively (comparative more respectively, superlative most respectively)

more respectively (comparative)
most respectively (superlative)

Serena Williams and Roger Federer won the women's and men's singles titles, respectively, at the 2010 Australian Open.

The 49th and 50th states of the United States of America are Alaska and Hawaii, respectively.

Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.

1849, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Language”, in Nature, Boston, MA: James Munroe and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC; republished Salt Lake City, UT: Project Gutenberg, 2009 July 17:

If, as we have said, the sun were a ball nine feet across, our earth would, in proportion, be the size of a one-inch ball, and at a distance of 323 yards from the sun. The moon would be a speck the size of a small pea, thirty inches from the earth. Nearer to the sun than the earth would be two other very similar specks, the planets Mercury and Venus, at a distance of 125 and 250 yards respectively. Beyond the earth would come the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, at distances of 500, 1806, 3000, 6000, and 9500 yards respectively.

1920, H. G. Wells, “The Earth in Space and Time”, in The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, New York: The Macmillan company, →LCCN, →OCLC; republished Salt Lake City, UT: Project Gutenberg, 2014 April 12:

Two tao with three and five perforations, respectively, made of black jade, were found at the site of Shih-mao in Shensi, Yü-lin District, Shen-mu County. Their total lengths are 49 and 55 centimeters.⁴⁷

1986, Hsia Nai, “The Classification, Nomenclature, and Usage of Shang Dynasty Jades”, in K. C. Chang, editor, Studies of Shang Archaeology: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 228:

Despite of the absence of Shaun Derry and Adel Taarabt because of illness and injury respectively, the home side began superbly. Helguson twice threatened early on with shots from the right-hand corner of the box before Anton Ferdinand spurned a great chance at the back post following the Icelandic striker's header back across goal.

2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:

Arriva and MTR, both private companies, are paid a fixed fee to operate Overground and Elizabeth line services respectively.

2023 May 31, Tammy Samuel, Fergus McLaverty, “The political picture: what lies ahead for Britain's railways?”, in RAIL, number 984, page 30:

In a relative manner; often used when comparing array lists, where the term denotes that the items in the lists correspond to each other in the order they are given.


rightly

rightly (comparative rightlier or more rightly, superlative rightliest or most rightly)

rightlier (comparative)
more rightly (comparative)
rightliest (superlative)
most rightly (superlative)

She was quite rightly disappointed in not being promoted.

I don't rightly know what he meant by that remark.

As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]

1765, William Blackstone, “Of Corporations”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 469:

If rightly used, it will save a great deal of money in every household.

1909, Sidney Morse, An Encyclopaedia of Practical Recipes and Processes, The Success Company, page 21:

Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,[…].

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

Steven Fletcher headed in for Wolves late on, who were denied a penalty and what appeared to be a legitimate equaliser in stoppage time.
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy will rightly be aggrieved by those two decisions.

2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle]”, in BBC Sport:

It is easy to dismiss the idea that any particular political conduct is all that bad, because usually it is not, even if the general state of our politics is lamentable as a whole. In other words, it is not often that the despair many Canadians rightly feel about how partisan politics are conducted in this country is actually crystallized in an incident that truly represents "a new low" in political behaviour.

2013 July 8, Emmett Macfarlane, “Was this the most offensive question ever asked by an MP?”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-27:

Virtue is not just about acting rightly but about feeling rightly.

2023 June 26, Nikhil Krishnan, “Aristotle’s Rules for Living Well”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-20:

In a right manner; correctly, justifiably.


sharply

sharply (comparative sharplier or more sharply, superlative sharpliest or most sharply)

sharplier (comparative)
more sharply (comparative)
sharpliest (superlative)
most sharply (superlative)

From Middle English sharply, scharply, from Old English sċearplīċe (“sharply, smartly”), equivalent to sharp + -ly.

inh

The stick was sharply tapered at one end.

So as to terminate in a sharp point or edge.

When I touched the snake it recoiled sharply.

The economy has slowed to a pale shadow of its growth in recent years; inflation is high, the currency is declining sharply against the dollar — but the expectations of Brazilians have rarely been higher, feeding broad intolerance with corruption, bad schools and other government failings.

2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21:

In a sharp manner, in various senses.
Rapidly, abruptly.

(to describe breathing) Suddenly and intensely like a gasp, but typically as the result of an emotional reaction.

a sharply focused essay

In a sharp manner, in various senses.
Precisely, accurately.

Jones, the centre forward, started the game sharply.

Walters tried a long range shot in the third minute as he opened the game sharply, linking well with Robbie Keane, but goalkeeper Sergei Pareiko gathered the ball with ease.

2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:

In a sharp manner, in various senses.
Quickly and alertly.

When I asked her about her husband, she replied sharply that she had not seen him for several months.

Before long Tinette stuck her head round the door, and said sharply, 'You're to go to the study.'

1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 99:

Of speech, sternly, harshly or critically.

He was sharply dressed in an expensive suit.

In a sharp manner, in various senses.
Stylishly, smartly.

Turn sharply to the right.

In a sharp manner, in various senses.
So as to form a sharp, or tight, angle.

The road descends sharply.

In a sharp manner, in various senses.
Steeply; precipitously.

His old war wound twinged sharply.

Piercingly; keenly; severely; painfully.

Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

In an intellectually alert and penetrating manner.

The wealth of this small country contrasts sharply with that of its neighbours.

Hynes is careful to direct the credit to his paymasters in the Scottish Government, whose ambitions for rail contrast increasingly sharply with those in Westminster.

2023 November 15, Paul Clifton, “Early responses to Scottish fares trial”, in RAIL, number 996, pages 44-45:

In a strongly distinguishing or differentiating manner; acutely.


boldly

en-adv

boldly (comparative boldlier or more boldly, superlative boldliest or most boldly)

boldlier (comparative)
more boldly (comparative)
boldliest (superlative)
most boldly (superlative)

From Middle English boldely, boldeliche, baldeliche, from Old English bealdlīċe (“boldly, earnestly”), equivalent to bold + -ly.

inh

to boldly go where no man has gone before


gravely

en-adv

gravely (comparative more gravely, superlative most gravely)

more gravely (comparative)
most gravely (superlative)

'No, no one's called that at home,' said Heidi gravely.

1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 100:


south-east

south-east (not generally comparable, comparative more south-east, superlative most south-east)

more south-east (comparative)
most south-east (superlative)

(chiefly UK) Alternative form of southeast


sadly

sadly (comparative sadlier or more sadly, superlative sadliest or most sadly)

sadlier (comparative)
more sadly (comparative)
sadliest (superlative)
most sadly (superlative)

From Middle English sadly; equivalent to sad + -ly.

“Only when we climb up can we see it,” he said sadly.

regretfully

various terms for particular shades of sadness

If you think you’re getting out of this place alive, you are sadly mistaken, my friend.

Sadly, the two were never to meet again.

Before kick-off, a section of Chelsea's support sadly let themselves and their club down by noisily interrupting the silence held in memory of the Hillsborough disaster and for Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during a Serie B game on Saturday.

2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:

"Don't ask me: don't make me talk of it," she answered. "I'm not fit now. I have been cruelly used and cruelly wronged. You will be kinder than ever, if you will walk on fast, and not speak to me. I sadly want to quiet myself, if I can."

1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:

(dated) Very much (of a desire etc.); dearly; urgently.

By my feythe sayd syre launcelot in that pauelione wil I lodge alle this nyghte / and soo there he alyghte doune and tayed his hors to the pauelione / and there he vnarmed hym / and there he fond a bedde / and layd hym theryn / and felle on slepe sadly

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:


gladly

gladly (comparative gladlier or more gladly, superlative gladliest or most gladly)

gladlier (comparative)
more gladly (comparative)
gladliest (superlative)
most gladly (superlative)

From Middle English gladly, gladliche, from Old English glædlīċe (“gladly”); equivalent to glad + -ly. Compare Danish glædelig (“joyful”), Icelandic gleðilegur (“delightful”). More at glad, -ly.

As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

'Find me a job and I'll gladly go to work.'

1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 4, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 44:

Would you like a beer? ― Gladly, thank you.

μετά χαράς (metá charás, literally “with pleasure”)

с удово́льствием (s udovólʹstvijem, literally “with pleasure”)


on spec

I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
Just on spec, addressed as follows, “Clancy, of The Overflow”.

1889, Banjo Paterson, Clancy of the Overflow:

In hope of success, using one's best guess.

I'm writing an article on spec. I hope some magazine will buy it.

He bought the land on spec — he thinks it's likely to be rezoned commercial and subdivided.

"Why doubt his guilt?"
Wolfe's shoulders went up a fraction of an inch, and down again. "Divination. Contrariety."
"I see." Unger pursed his midget mouth, which didn't need pursing. "You're shooting at it on spec."

1955 October, Rex Stout, “The Next Witness”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, →ISBN, page 36:

(colloquial, business) With the hope of selling it, as opposed to on commission (for hire) or with some other likewise assured outlet for getting paid or reselling.


frightful

frightful (comparative more frightful, superlative most frightful)

more frightful (comparative)
most frightful (superlative)

From Middle English frightful (“afraid”), from Old English forhtfull (“fainthearted, timorous”). Equivalent to fright + -ful.

inh

You had a lot of frightful good quotes. You must know half the books that there are.

1926, Charles Edward Montague, Rough Justice, page 87:

It's a frightful long time, and I don't get many letters from him.

1942, Philip Gibbs, The Long Alert, page 200:

But we ain't found a soul what knows you, honey-love, I am so frightful sorry to say.


all along

He thought he had me fooled, but I knew the truth all along.

(duration, idiomatic) For the entire time; always.


invariably

He is invariably late for meetings.

“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

In common with most Swiss Railways the standard of equipment and of operating efficiency is high, and stations and trains are invariably clean and well maintained.

1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 770:


keenly

en-adv

keenly (comparative more keenly, superlative most keenly)

more keenly (comparative)
most keenly (superlative)

From Middle English kenely, kenliche, from Old English cēnlīċe (“keenly, boldly, courageously”), equivalent to keen + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian köinlik (“boldly”), archaic German kühnlich (“bravely”).

inh

watch something keenly

We played keenly.


principally

From Middle English principaly; equivalent to principal + -ly.

The game principally consists in taking and carrying off the ball from the opposite party, after being hurled into the air midway between two high pillars, which are the goasl, and the party who bears off the ball to their pillar, wins the game[…]

1828, Elizabeth Elkins Sanders, Conversations Principally on the Aborigines of North America, Salem: W. and S. B. Ives, page 65:

Timber, hides, furs, and minerals from the north, and grain and other products from the south and the immediate vicinity of the town itself are brought, principally by river, to this point, where the railway cuts the great central waterway of Siberia.

1916 May 5, M[aria] A[ntonina] Czaplicka, “A Year in Arctic Sibera”, in The Wide World Magazine, volume 37, number 217, page 54:

When asked to guess whether champagnes they were drinking was made principally from white or black grapes, most tasters including wine writers and journalists were unable to tell the difference.

2013 November 29, Nick Collins, “Even Champagne experts blind to grape varieties”, in The Telegraph:

Pollination by animals, principally insects and birds, is widespread among plants.

2019 March 13, “Nature Talk looks at avian pollinators”, in New Zealand Herald, archived from the original on 2019-03-14:

In a primary manner; pertaining to the principal of a matter.


nominally

Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).

2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-03-04:

In Mauritanian Hassaniya, forms like lil-i can function nominally ('mine'), and accordingly have FeSg and Pl variants (lil-t-i, lwaayl-i), see DHF l.lxxv.

2013, Jeffrey Heath, Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic:

In the first phase, the grasp of an abstraction, the concept 'size' does not function nominally, rather it provides a way of thinking the quality of something.

2013, Peter de Bola, The Architecture of Concepts:


unconsciously

en-adv

unconsciously (comparative more unconsciously, superlative most unconsciously)

more unconsciously (comparative)
most unconsciously (superlative)

From un- + consciously, and more rarely, from unconscious + -ly.

Emily had thought she was accustomed to consider Lorraine attached to another; but that vague hope which lingers so unconsciously in the human heart, or not so much hope as uncertainty, that had as yet given no tangible shape to her rival, had ill prepared her to find that rival in her own familiar companion.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 246:


tenderly

tenderly (comparative more tenderly, superlative most tenderly)

more tenderly (comparative)
most tenderly (superlative)

and the hour striking at which I was oblig'd to dispatch my young man, I tenderly advised him of the necessity there was for parting

1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

Outside is getting colder
Why does it feel like I'm older than I asked to be?
But when you say my name
It all falls away so tenderly


hurriedly

hurriedly (comparative more hurriedly, superlative most hurriedly)

more hurriedly (comparative)
most hurriedly (superlative)

The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:

If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.

1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:

But Johnson [...] hurriedly [c]hanged his plea to guilty.

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 96:

The result was that trains ran as normal on November 7 and 9, although there was still disruption on Saturday November 5, owing to the short notice as rosters were hurriedly rewritten. Rosters are typically agreed a week in advance.

2022 November 16, Mel Holley, “Network News: Rail strikes halted to allow for "intensive negotiations"”, in RAIL, number 970, page 8:


unusually

unusually (comparative more unusually, superlative most unusually)

more unusually (comparative)
most unusually (superlative)

She's unusually happy for someone who's just broken her leg.


cautiously

cautiously (comparative more cautiously, superlative most cautiously)

more cautiously (comparative)
most cautiously (superlative)

He said cautiously, "I do not think it right, Imperator."

1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 147:


bravely

bravely (comparative bravelier or more bravely, superlative braveliest or most bravely)

bravelier (comparative)
more bravely (comparative)
braveliest (superlative)
most bravely (superlative)

The soldiers faced the enemy bravely.

Here, here, here's an excellent place; here we may see most bravely: I'll tell you them all by their names as they pass by; but mark Troilus above the rest.

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

No, they hold there a large, round wad of tow and cork, enveloped in the thickest and toughest of ox-hide. That bravely and uninjured takes the jam which would have snapped all their oaken handspikes and iron crow-bars.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 76, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

[H]e stepped forward and said bravely, though his hand trembled, and his face was as pale as snow:—
“My true friend, from the bottom of my broken heart I thank you. Tell me what I am to do, and I shall not falter!”

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter XVI, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:


beautifully

beautifully (comparative more beautifully, superlative most beautifully)

more beautifully (comparative)
most beautifully (superlative)

From beautiful + -ly, circa 17th century.

The intercom system worked beautifully, despite the fact that the ear plugs were designed for human rather than kzinti ears.

Tom Cleverley had one of his better games, the highlight being a beautifully weighted pass to send Walcott away for his goal, and Rooney probably did as well as might have been anticipated given this was his first start in a competitive match since April.

2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:


privately

privately (comparative more privately, superlative most privately)

more privately (comparative)
most privately (superlative)

Alonso and Ferrari may well privately regret the decision to delay their second pit stop until two laps after Maldonado made his on the 24th of 66 laps.

2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport:


dearly

dearly (comparative more dearly or (rare) dearlier, superlative most dearly or (rare) dearliest)

more dearly (comparative)
dearlier (comparative rare)
most dearly (superlative)
dearliest (rare superlative)

From Middle English derely, deorliche, from Old English dēorlīċe (“worthily, richly”), equivalent to dear + -ly.

inh

the funeral of our dearly beloved sister

a dearly priced item

He paid dearly for his mistake.

But I take solace in the fact that the public has seen the enormous mountain of evidence proving what Fox did, and Fox paid dearly for it.

2023 April 21, John Poulos, “Dominion’s C.E.O.: Why We Settled the Lawsuit Against Fox News”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


curiously

en-adv

curiously (comparative more curiously, superlative most curiously)

more curiously (comparative)
most curiously (superlative)

From Middle English curiusly, curyously, curiosly, curiouseliche, curyouslyche, equivalent to curious + -ly.

The children peeped curiously into the attic room.

In a curious manner; with curiosity; inquisitively.

Curiously, when I arrived home, the front door was standing ajar.


tolerably

tolerably (comparative more tolerably, superlative most tolerably)

more tolerably (comparative)
most tolerably (superlative)

I don't like the music, but it's tolerably quiet.

In a tolerable manner; to an extent that can be tolerated.

With a small knife or larding pin, cut holes in the beef, to receive the bacon thus prepared; place the lardings tolerably thick and even; rub the beef over with the remainder of the seasoning […]

(dated) Reasonably; acceptably; somewhat.


remarkably

remarkably (comparative more remarkably, superlative most remarkably)

more remarkably (comparative)
most remarkably (superlative)

He performed the piece remarkably, offering novel interpretations to its nearly cliched passages.

That dog is remarkably fierce.

Suggestions that those leaders are irrational and their decisions unfathomable are remarkably shallow. North Korea is not a theocracy led by zealots who preach the rewards of the afterlife.

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

Remarkably, three State assembly elections were decided by a total of fewer than one hundred votes.

(evaluative) Used to draw special attention to a proposition.


humbly

humbly (comparative more humbly, superlative most humbly)

more humbly (comparative)
most humbly (superlative)

From Middle English humbely, humbliche, equivalent to humble + -ly. Displaced Old English ēaþmōdlīċe.

I humbly accept this award.

Hee hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doeth the Lord require of thee, but to do iustly, and to loue mercy, and to walke humbly with thy God?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Micah 6:8:

At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness.

1850, T. S. Arthur, “Happy on a Little”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 89:

The greatest difficulty is to do great things humbly.

1958, Vincent McNabb, “Principles of the Spiritual Life”, in Stars of Comfort[:] Retreat Conferences, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →OCLC, page 111:


seemingly

seemingly (comparative more seemingly, superlative most seemingly)

more seemingly (comparative)
most seemingly (superlative)

From Middle English semyngly, equivalent to seeming + -ly.

[…] an object, seemingly like those which we have experienced, may be attended with different or contrary effects.

1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, section 15, Oxford University Press, published 1973:

Mr. Woodhouse at last was off; but Mr. Knightley, instead of being immediately off likewise, sat down again, seemingly inclined for more chat. He began speaking of Harriet, and speaking of her with more voluntary praise than Emma had ever heard before.

1816, Jane Austen, chapter 8, in Emma, volume 1:

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

He sacrificed nothing, laboring to get even the most seemingly insignificant element of every record perfect.

2006, Ace Collins, More Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas, page 64:

With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.

2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:

It was possibly chagrin at this neglect that caused James to omit the most ordinary courtesies to the few gentlemen who had behaved seemingly:[…].

1950, Francis Charles Turner, James II, page 172:

[…]was restored to his throne but only on the understanding that he behave seemingly.

1974, G[odfrey] N[wanoruo] Uzoigwe, Britain and the Conquest of Africa: The Age of Salisbury, page 180:

[…]they know the roles and statuses of deities, ancestral spirits, and men, and how to behave seemingly in their presence.

1989, Yi-fu Tuan, Morality & Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress, page 40:

In a seemly manner; decorously; with propriety.


effectually

effectually (comparative more effectually, superlative most effectually)

more effectually (comparative)
most effectually (superlative)

Though the captain had effectually demolished poor Partridge, yet had he not reaped the harvest he hoped for, which was to turn the foundling out of Mr Allworthy's house.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 2:

Her quick eye detected the cause in a moment; Mr. Courtenaye had just entered the room, though he had not as yet perceived them. Indeed, the position in which Ethel stood effectually screened her from observation; and Henrietta thought she could not do better than stand as they were, thus giving her companion time to recover her outward composure.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 9–10:

They intrigued and slandered and hated each other only on that account, - but as to effectually lifting a little finger - oh, no.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:

In such a way as to achieve a desired result; effectively; so as to have an effect.

efficacemente

in such a way as to achieve a desired result


peculiarly

peculiarly (comparative more peculiarly, superlative most peculiarly)

more peculiarly (comparative)
most peculiarly (superlative)

He has a peculiarly strong accent.

This racehorse is peculiarly fast.

Democratic society is peculiarly dependent for its maintenance upon the use in forming a course of study of criteria which are broadly human.

1916, John Dewey, “Section 14”, in Democracy and Education:

He begged pardon, and was getting into the carriage, but felt he must glance at her once more; not that she was very beautiful, not on account of the elegance and modest grace which were apparent in her whole figure, but because in the expression of her charming face, as she passed close by him, there was something peculiarly caressing and soft.

1917, “Chapter 18”, in Garnett, Constance, transl., Anna Karenina, part one, translation of Анна Каренина by Leo Tolstoy, published 1877:

Such as to be greater than usual; particularly; exceptionally.

(degree) To greater degree than is usual.

One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.

1818, Mary Shelley, “Chapter 4”, in Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus:

I feel that the Progressive Party should appeal peculiarly to the young men--and therefore to the boys--who ought to be the next generation of voters.

1913 July 3, Theodore Roosevelt, Address to the Boys Progressive League:

(manner) In a manner that is greater than usual.

His nose is peculiarly bent.

Such as to be strange or odd.
(degree) Strangely, oddly.

Such as to be strange or odd.
Strangely, oddly.

He dresses peculiarly.

(manner) In a strange or perverse manner; strangely.

Peculiarly, his hat is on upside-down.

(evaluative) Such as to be strange or odd.

Such as to be strange or odd.
Such as to be strange or odd.

Peculiarly, he left through the window.

Peculiarly, he sat bolt upright and shouted "Geronimo!" whenever John Wayne appeared.

(act-related) Acting in strange or perverse way.

Such as to be strange or odd.
Acting in strange or perverse way.

Strongly associated with; in a manner that is peculiar or restricted to some person or place.

Having red hair and freckles is a characteristic that is peculiarly Northern European.

She was carried home quite exhausted; the only sign she gave of consciousness was, that when they were about to take her to the room which had formerly been her own, she raised her head, and feebly insisted on being taken to her uncle's. Every thing there was peculiarly his, and there she had gazed, for the last time, on his inanimate features; in that room she could call up his image more distinctly than elsewhere.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Last Night with the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 317:

This is one of the methods of procedure. The other is through man to God. The second is peculiarly Aryan, and the first is peculiarly Semitic.

1907, Swami Vivekananda, “The Methods and Purpose of Religion”, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, volume 6:

However, he already gave strong indication of the peculiarly Russian genius for naturalness or realism, and was a true Russian in his simplicity of style.

1917, “Introduction”, in Seltzer, Thomas, transl., Best Russian Short Stories:

This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:

(degree, of a place or circumstance) Mostly or solely associated with.


wildly

wildly (comparative more wildly, superlative most wildly)

more wildly (comparative)
most wildly (superlative)

From Middle English wildely, wijldeli, wildeliche, equivalent to wild + -ly.

He swung wildly at the guy's head, but ended up on the floor.

Steve Bruce's side have swung from highs to lows in what has been at best a wildly inconsistent start to the season. They experienced a microcosm of this within the opening 45 minutes at the Stadium of Light.

2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:

"From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].

2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70:

To a ridiculous or extreme degree; extremely.


comfortably

comfortably (comparative more comfortably, superlative most comfortably)

more comfortably (comparative)
most comfortably (superlative)

I snuggled comfortably into the blankets.

Messi was the next to test Cech with a header from Sanchez's cross, the Chelsea keeper gathering the effort comfortably as Barcelona once more failed to produce the final touch to accompany their artistic approach work.

2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport:


singularly

singularly (comparative more singularly, superlative most singularly)

more singularly (comparative)
most singularly (superlative)

From Middle English singulerly; equivalent to singular + -ly.

He behaved most singularly when we met him last night.

I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.

1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:

"There were scraps of verse. I do not profess to be a judge of such things, but they appeared to me to be singularly wanting in merit."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

In the singular number; in terms of a single thing.


intensely

intensely (comparative more intensely, superlative most intensely)

more intensely (comparative)
most intensely (superlative)

He pursued his studies intensely.

An intensely private man, he kept chit-chat to a minimum.

You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:


richly

richly (comparative richlier or more richly, superlative richliest or most richly)

richlier (comparative)
more richly (comparative)
richliest (superlative)
most richly (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English richely, from Old English rīċlīċe, from Proto-West Germanic *rīkīlīkō, from Proto-Germanic *rīkijalīkô; by surface analysis, rich + -ly (adverbial suffix).

surface analysis

She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

In a luxurious manner; full of majesty or expression:

In an attractive or manner; full of colour or detail.

In a manner that occupies the non-visual senses; flavourfully, deeply.

(of a marriage) Done advantageously, done as to be wealthy.

a richly deserved comeuppance

Thoroughly, totally; in an ample manner.


vaguely

en-adv

vaguely (comparative more vaguely, superlative most vaguely)

more vaguely (comparative)
most vaguely (superlative)

He looked vaguely around the room, as if lost.

The youth pointed vaguely. "Over there," he replied.

1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 105:

12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.


unexpectedly

unexpectedly (comparative more unexpectedly, superlative most unexpectedly)

more unexpectedly (comparative)
most unexpectedly (superlative)

Near-synonyms: against expectations, against all odds, surprisingly

[…] she was startled by unexpectedly meeting her husband, who was coming to seek her.

1863, George Eliot, chapter XVI, in Romola, volume II, book II, page 186:

Other evidence of former ownerships such as notice-boards, number plates, and makers' plates, are often discovered unexpectedly.

1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:


neatly

neatly (comparative neatlier or more neatly, superlative neatliest or most neatly)

neatlier (comparative)
more neatly (comparative)
neatliest (superlative)
most neatly (superlative)

I was delighted to see A Woman's Place take a stand against censorship. But I noted with some cynicism that the exhibit failed to include any of the numerous publications suppressed by institutions of the feminist community. It thus neatly avoided acknowledging the role being played by the women's movement as a force for censorship (and the rather sordid past of A Woman's Place itself).

1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8:


assuredly

assuredly (comparative more assuredly, superlative most assuredly)

more assuredly (comparative)
most assuredly (superlative)

/əˈʃʊəɹɪdli/

/əˈʃɔːɹɪdli/

The hotel owner strode assuredly into the lobby.

I soon came to think that […] there was something, assuredly, very strange going on […]


painfully

painfully (comparative more painfully, superlative most painfully)

more painfully (comparative)
most painfully (superlative)

From Middle English peinfully, paynefully, equivalent to painful + -ly.

I limped painfully down the stairs.

The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.

1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IX, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, page 193:

That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.


coldly

coldly (comparative more coldly, superlative most coldly)

more coldly (comparative)
most coldly (superlative)

From Middle English coldliche, caldeliche, perhaps borrowed from Old Norse kaldliga (“coldly”); equivalent to cold + -ly. Displaced Middle English colde (“coldly”), from Old English cealde (“coldly”).

'He is a mighty handsome man!' 'I don't think so,' said Tess coldly.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 82:

in a cold or uncaring manner; indifferently.


decidedly

decidedly (comparative more decidedly, superlative most decidedly)

more decidedly (comparative)
most decidedly (superlative)

In a decidedly petulant manner she sat with crossed arms and a frown.

"We progress," said he. "Decidedly we progress."

1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

'I understand it was the big American man with a decidedly unpleasant face.'

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 7, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 121:

The long-closed G.W.R. station alongside has a decidedly derelict-looking frontage, with eight gargoyles or figureheads still clinging to the portico.

1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 131:

In time The Simpsons would, indeed, resort to spoofing such decidedly non-spooktacular fare like E.T and Mr. And Mrs. Smith (both in “Treehouse Of Horror XVIII”) but in 1992 the field was wide-open and the show could cherry-pick the most iconic and beloved fright fare of all time.

2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in AV Club:

In a manner which leaves little question; definitely, clearly.

‘We can't,’ said Vera decidedly, ‘we haven't any boats and we're cut off by a raging torrent from any human habitation.’

1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts:

In a decided or final manner; resolutely.


respectfully

respectfully (comparative more respectfully, superlative most respectfully)

more respectfully (comparative)
most respectfully (superlative)

с уваже́нием (s uvažénijem, literally “with respect”)

з пова́гою (z pováhoju, literally “with respect”)


intently

intently (comparative more intently, superlative most intently)

more intently (comparative)
most intently (superlative)


carelessly

carelessly (comparative more carelessly, superlative most carelessly)

more carelessly (comparative)
most carelessly (superlative)

The papers were carelessly strewn on the table.

Giving the appearance of carelessness; relaxedly.

Distracted by the salesperson, he carelessly read the contract.

Done without care or attention; inattentively.


sternly

sternly (comparative more sternly or (rare, poetic) sternlier, superlative most sternly or (rare, poetic) sternliest)

more sternly (comparative)
sternlier (comparative poetic rare)
most sternly (superlative)
sternliest (poetic rare superlative)

From Middle English sternly, sternely, sterneliche, sturnely, sturneliche, from Old English stirnlīċe, styrnlīċe, stiernlīċe (“harshly; severely; sternly”), equivalent to stern + -ly.

It was a historic night at Wembley Stadium that saw the European champions sternly tested by Copa America winners Brazil, but ended with the familiar sight of captain Leah Williamson lifting a trophy.

2023 April 6, Emma Sanders, “Women's Finalissima:England beat Brazil in dramatic shhotout”, in BBC Sport:


faithfully

faithfully (comparative more faithfully, superlative most faithfully)

more faithfully (comparative)
most faithfully (superlative)

From Middle English feithfulli, equivalent to faithful + -ly.

The CD reproduces music faithfully.

I have been faithfully married for the past twenty years.

You'll see your problems multiplied / if you continually decide / to faithfully pursue / the policy of truth.

1990, “Policy of Truth”, in Violator, performed by Depeche Mode:

(US) A conventional formula for ending a letter, used when the salutation addresses the person for whom the letter is intended using an honorific.


infinitely

infinitely (comparative more infinitely, superlative most infinitely)

more infinitely (comparative)
most infinitely (superlative)

In an infinite manner; as of anything growing without bounds; endlessly.

He is infinitely more capable than John.

Today, computer databases and corpora infinitely increase the ease of this type of research, but the collecting process remains essentially the same.

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 4:


vividly

vividly (comparative more vividly, superlative most vividly)

more vividly (comparative)
most vividly (superlative)

Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!

1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 613:


resolutely

resolutely (comparative more resolutely, superlative most resolutely)

more resolutely (comparative)
most resolutely (superlative)

We must resolutely fight against the increasing radical leftist threat targeting our society!

It was applied methodically, carefully, resolutely, as in the fashion of a Satin-bird with charcoal, desiccated wood or blue from laundry-bags.

1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 13:

Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.

1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:

It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.

2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:


intimately

intimately (comparative more intimately, superlative most intimately)

more intimately (comparative)
most intimately (superlative)

I have tried to find friends like me […] but have failed to form even one prolonged relationship. Only a few of them could understand how I felt and a couple of them allowed me to express my love as intimately and vigorously as I wanted to.

1980 August 9, anonymous author, “Inside Burning”, in Gay Community News, page 4:


perpetually

perpetually (comparative more perpetually, superlative most perpetually)

more perpetually (comparative)
most perpetually (superlative)

From Middle English perpetuelly; equivalent to perpetual + -ly.

For whiche offence oure holy fader the pope enioyned hym to make hym to be prayed for perpetually / ⁊ lyke as he had done too be taken frome hym his naturall lyfe therfore he ſholde do foũde four tapers to brẽne perpetually about his body yͭ for yͤ extynccõn of his bodely lyf his ſoule may euer be remẽbred ⁊ lyf in heuẽ in ſpyrytuall lyfe

[1502], Chronycle of Englonde, [London]: [Wynkyn de Worde], →OCLC:

Now her work dropped on her knee, and her book fell from her hand; she was perpetually seeking excuses for change of place; and the change brought added discomfort.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A First Disappointment”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 268–269:

Seeming to never end; endlessly; constantly.


passionately

passionately (comparative more passionately, superlative most passionately)

more passionately (comparative)
most passionately (superlative)

“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]”

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:


confidently

confidently (comparative more confidently, superlative most confidently)

more confidently (comparative)
most confidently (superlative)

Alice confidently stepped up on the platform to give her maiden speech as CEO.

In a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively.


thoughtfully

thoughtfully (comparative more thoughtfully, superlative most thoughtfully)

more thoughtfully (comparative)
most thoughtfully (superlative)

I opened my eyes, and the first thing they fell on was the venerable countenance of our old friend Billali, who was seated by the side of the improvised bed upon which I was sleeping, and thoughtfully stroking his long beard.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

'That button, it suggests possibilities,' said Poirot thoughtfully.

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 105:

In a way that shows kindness or consideration for others.


universally

universally (comparative more universally, superlative most universally)

more universally (comparative)
most universally (superlative)

From Middle English universally; equivalent to universal + -ly.

My experience of the people was that they were universally polite, civil, and clean, and during the whole time I spent in the country, I only saw one drunken man.

1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 12:

If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:

The movie was universally praised by its audience.

By everyone or by the vast majority of people.


reluctantly

reluctantly (comparative more reluctantly, superlative most reluctantly)

more reluctantly (comparative)
most reluctantly (superlative)

Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:


grumpily

grumpily (comparative more grumpily, superlative most grumpily)

more grumpily (comparative)
most grumpily (superlative)

A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. Now he was muttering grumpily at Edmund, "Have to get something better this trip, Edmund."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 17:


thickly

thickly (comparative thicklier or more thickly, superlative thickliest or most thickly)

thicklier (comparative)
more thickly (comparative)
thickliest (superlative)
most thickly (superlative)

From Middle English thikly; equivalent to thick + -ly.

In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.

1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:

These he held aside, ushering her into a dark sanctuary resinously scented and thickly carpeted with pine needles.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 148:

Through the thickly wooded and precipitous slopes on either side of the line there are one or two short rock tunnels.

1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:


profoundly

profoundly (comparative more profoundly, superlative most profoundly)

more profoundly (comparative)
most profoundly (superlative)

He thought and wrote profoundly.

More profoundly, it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions.

From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled.

Leo was sleeping profoundly, and on the whole I thought it wise not to wake him.

In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:

(degree) Deeply; very; strongly or forcefully.


expressly

We were expressly permitted to use the building. See – here is the note from the manager clearly stating that we have permission to use the building.

"What do you think of this sentence, my dear Lizzy?" said Jane as she finished it. "Is it not clear enough? Does it not expressly declare that Caroline neither expects nor wishes me to be her sister; […]"

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 21, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

"No term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor."

2013 November 5, “Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License”, in Wikisource:

In an express or explicit manner; in a clear or specific manner.

No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, […]

1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:


straightaway

Alternative form of straight away (“at once; immediately”)


sorely

sorely (comparative more sorely, superlative most sorely)

more sorely (comparative)
most sorely (superlative)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English sorely, from Old English sārlīċ (adjective), sārlīċe (adverb); equivalent to sore + -ly.

He said he wanted it [the picture] for his study. I would not let him have it, and he went away sorely puzzled.

If Chelsea hoped this blow would have a detrimental effect on Arsenal, they were to be sorely mistaken as the Gunners surged forward after the restart.

2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:


lastly

Firstly, that's illegal; secondly, it has serious disadvantages; thirdly, it's not necessary; and lastly, did I mention that it's illegal?

(sequence) Used to mark the beginning of the last in a list of items or propositions.

(discourse marker) Used to signal that the speaker is about to yield control of the conversation.


whatsoever

/ˌwɒtsəʊˈɛvə(ɹ)/

From Middle English whatsoever. By surface analysis, what + so + ever.

He gave me no answer whatsoever.

In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 1:

...my father's role as the ecclesiastical leader of our ward gave me no license whatsoever to expect obedience from my agemates?

2019, Dierdre Nicole Green, “'I'm the Bishop!' and other Reflections”, in A Place to Belong, Deseret Book, →ISBN, page 141:


elegantly

elegantly (comparative more elegantly, superlative most elegantly)

more elegantly (comparative)
most elegantly (superlative)

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.


mightily

mightily (comparative more mightily, superlative most mightily)

more mightily (comparative)
most mightily (superlative)

In a mighty manner; with strength or force.

The Billingham fertiliser traffic has grown mightily in the past few seasons.

1960 September, G. Freeman Allen, “I.C.I. fertiliser goes by rail from Tees-side”, in Trains Illustrated, page 533:

He sounded mightily proud of himself.


violently

violently (comparative more violently, superlative most violently)

more violently (comparative)
most violently (superlative)

From Middle English violently; equivalent to violent + -ly.

I found myself violently disagreeing with him.

Arthur started to choke violently on his drink.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 112:

To an intense degree; extremely; strongly; intensely.


involuntarily

involuntarily (comparative more involuntarily, superlative most involuntarily)

more involuntarily (comparative)
most involuntarily (superlative)

From involuntary + -ly or in- + voluntarily.

Her leg twitched involuntarily.

He involuntarily overheard the conversation.

His eyes filled with tears, as he took up the glittering lengths. Their pale gold was lovely as ever; but there was something in the touch from which he involuntarily recoiled.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Last Letter”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 283:

In an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.


fiercely

fiercely (comparative fiercelier or more fiercely, superlative fierceliest or most fiercely)

fiercelier (comparative)
more fiercely (comparative)
fierceliest (superlative)
most fiercely (superlative)

From Middle English fersly; equivalent to fierce + -ly.

The wind blew fiercely and the rain fell heavily.

They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

He helped himself to a cigar and leaned back with a fiercely critical pair of eyes, taking note of the effect which this document would produce.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

fiercely competitive

a fiercely loved woman

a fiercely proud father

fiercely disappointed

fiercely loyal

fiercely independent

Tuchel made it three out of three against Guardiola by producing a fiercely disciplined, positive Chelsea performance that has brought a season that was shrouded in uncertainty to the most glorious conclusion.

2021 May 29, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 0-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:


mechanically

mechanically (comparative more mechanically, superlative most mechanically)

more mechanically (comparative)
most mechanically (superlative)

My fears, however, made me mechanically close my thighs; but the very touch of his hand insinuated between them, disclosed them and opened a way for the main attack.

1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

"Of what avail," and her eyes wandered mechanically round, "is all the luxury by which I am surrounded, if it serve only as a barrier to all kindly feelings?"

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 183–184:


furiously

furiously (comparative more furiously, superlative most furiously)

more furiously (comparative)
most furiously (superlative)

From Middle English furiously; equivalent to furious + -ly.

He glared furiously at the offender.

He tried furiously to get it to work before the deadline.

Again we set to and bailed furiously. Fortunately the storm had now quite gone by[.]

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

Quickly; frantically; with great effort or speed.

Craig, who at twenty was taller than his father, blushed furiously as he practically threw two small boxes on the table in front of the twins. “Happy birthday”, he managed.

2004, Clara Mille, Under The Southern Cross, page 86:


eminently

eminently (comparative more eminently, superlative most eminently)

more eminently (comparative)
most eminently (superlative)

Everyone supported the nominee because she was eminently qualified.

Here Mr. Bandparts at once proceeded to put the position as between master and pupil on an eminently sound footing, clearly exulting in this opportunity of exercising some baritone oratory that had suffered a period of disuse.

1930, Norman Lindsay, chapter 4, in Every Mother’s Son [Redheap], New York, N.Y.: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, →OCLC, section III, page 82:

So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable.

2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): "I Love Lisa"”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2023-09-10:

There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.

2023 September 6, Luke Winkie, “Our Greatest Fast-Food Joint Is Costco”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:


delicately

delicately (comparative more delicately, superlative most delicately)

more delicately (comparative)
most delicately (superlative)

The gingerbread was delicately, if imprecisely, captured by the brushstrokes.

He approached the main subject delicately.


wonderfully

wonderfully (comparative more wonderfully, superlative most wonderfully)

more wonderfully (comparative)
most wonderfully (superlative)

From Middle English wonderfully, wunderfullie, wonderfulliche, equivalent to wonderful + -ly.

He entertained us wonderfully.

By freeing statisticians from dealing with complicated calculations, the statistical aspects of a problem can become the main focus. This point is wonderfully illustrated by Smith and Gelfand (1992).

1992, Casella and George, Explaining the Gibbs Sampler, in: The American Statistician 46(3) 167–174

His costume was wonderfully intricate.


nicely

nicely (comparative nicelier or more nicely, superlative niceliest or most nicely)

nicelier (comparative)
more nicely (comparative)
niceliest (superlative)
most nicely (superlative)

From Middle English nycely; equivalent to nice + -ly.

He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].

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

All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled to be got in.

1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].

1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 580:

Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.

2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 59:

Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement.

1986-1987, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He was a sweet boy, but became the kind of man I can do nicely without.


doubly

From Middle English dowbly, doubli, dubli, doubeliche, equivalent to double + -ly.

My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 2, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:

(usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.

Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.


specially

From Middle English specialli, specially, equivalent to special + -ly.

We had this cake made specially for your birthday.

The train is waiting specially for a high-ranking diplomat.

The school is specially for any child whose schooling was disrupted by illness.

For a special purpose, person, or occasion.

She's specially good at running.

I love all animals, specially cute furry ones.


positively

positively (comparative more positively, superlative most positively)

more positively (comparative)
most positively (superlative)

From Middle English positively, equivalent to positive + -ly.

He approached the interview positively.

I will positively be there at 8 a.m.

The carriage nearly overturned, and he saw her eyes blaze at him, and she positively hissed, “I suppose you are enjoying this?”

1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 277:

[…] Easter Sunday, for all its traditions, is a gladless day in London. There is positively nothing to do.

1915, Ernest Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense, page 118:

She talked and laughed and positively forgot until he had come in (just as she had imagined) that Pearl Fulton had not turned up.

1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 127:

"Positively do not open," reads the message under the cabinet in which Ed and Lorraine put the possessed Annabelle doll.

2017 September 16, Hollywood, “Demonic possession, cries for help: Read the chilling true story behind the Conjuring’s creepy Annabelle doll”, in Hindustan Times:

I had a positively wonderful time.

The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

In the 90s it was Craigslist and AOL chat rooms, then Match.com and Kiss.com. But the lengthy, heartfelt e-mails exchanged by the main characters in You’ve Got Mail (1998) seem positively Victorian in comparison to the messages sent on the average dating app today.

2015, Nancy Jo Sales, “Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse””, in Vanity Fair:


profusely

profusely (comparative more profusely, superlative most profusely)

more profusely (comparative)
most profusely (superlative)

The run left him sweating profusely.

"Oh, I say! By Jove! What!" was his oration, after which he resumed his seat and perspired profusely.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

In great quantity or abundance; in a profuse manner.

runsaasti

in great quantity or abundance; in a profuse manner

szakad (the origin of the liquid is expressed with -ról/-ről or -ból/-ből)


warmly

warmly (comparative warmlier or more warmly, superlative warmliest or most warmly)

warmlier (comparative)
more warmly (comparative)
warmliest (superlative)
most warmly (superlative)

Be sure to dress warmly today!

In a manner that maintains warm temperature.

calorosament

in a manner maintaining warm temperature

I said so - I said so warmly, for I felt that the Professor was an ill-used man.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

One evening in particular, about a week after Colonel Brandon left the country, his heart seemed more than usually open to every feeling of attachment to the objects around him; and on Mrs. Dashwood’s happening to mention her design of improving the cottage in the spring, he warmly opposed every alteration of a place which affection had established as perfect with him. “What!” he exclaimed—“improve this dear cottage! No. That I will never consent to. Not a stone must be added to its walls, not an inch to its size, if my feelings are regarded.”

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 166:

Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her. This was too much. “You are mistaken, Elinor,” said she warmly, “in supposing I know very little of Willoughby."

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 135:

(dated) With emotion, especially some anger; somewhat hotly.


poss.

Apparently m > n in khân, khâin “which” (Av. katāma-?), poss. under the influence of khin “who” (*kahya-nā?).

1929, Georg Morgenstierne, Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages, Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., page 40:

The latter sense was modified by two other terms meaning “a lot of money”: long bread (poss. influenced by the Fr. baguette) and heavy bread (poss. influenced by unleavened bread).

2000, Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms, Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 33:

pagoda, n. (W10 1588) Rel., (1681) Money, (1900) Cloth., var. pagod + 4 [Pg. pagode, prob. < Per. butkada idol temple, poss. influenced by Prakrit bhagodī divine, holy;[…]]

2001, Garland [Hampton] Cannon, Alan S[tewart] Kaye, The Persian Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 116:


sweetly

sweetly (comparative sweetlier or more sweetly, superlative sweetliest or most sweetly)

sweetlier (comparative)
more sweetly (comparative)
sweetliest (superlative)
most sweetly (superlative)

From Middle English swetly, swetely, sweteliche, from Old English swētlīċe (“sweetly; pleasantly”), equivalent to sweet + -ly. Cognate with Old High German swuozlīhho (“sweetly”), Icelandic sætlega (“sweetly; with gratitude”), German süßlich (“sweetish; sugary”), Dutch zoetelijk (“sentimental”).

cog

"No, Auntie," said Hardman, sweetly, seriously.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 232:

Sitting in the seat with the engine off before that day, the gears slid in so sweetly, and double de-clutching was so easy, I had done it a million times.

2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 21:


frankly

en-adv

frankly (comparative franklier or more frankly, superlative frankliest or most frankly)

franklier (comparative)
more frankly (comparative)
frankliest (superlative)
most frankly (superlative)

speak frankly

He spoke frankly about the economy.

She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:

In a frank or candid manner, especially in a way that may seem too open, excessively honest, or slightly blunt.

Most of what they said was, frankly, a pack of lies.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

1939, Gone with the Wind, spoken by Rhett Butler (Clark Gable):

(sentence adverb) In truth, to tell the truth.

sözün düzü

frankly septic

frankly psychotic

(sciences, medicine) To a degree large enough as to be plainly evident.


coolly

coolly (comparative more coolly, superlative most coolly)

more coolly (comparative)
most coolly (superlative)

The wind blew coolly.

"He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him." ¶ "What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?" ¶ "This morning, before father went downtown." ¶ Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.

2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales:

In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.

koel

They walked in, not even wearing masks, and coolly robbed the bank of twelve thousand pounds.


forcibly

From Middle English forceably, equivalent to forcible + -ly.

And suddenly; where injury of chance / Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by / All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips / Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents / Our lock'd embrasures […]

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

In a forcible manner, by force, against one's will.

It was now cold, winter weather: forcibly recalling to his mind under what circumstances he had first travelled that road, and how many vicissitudes and changes he had since undergone.

1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:

In a forcible manner, with force, with powerful effect, powerfully, strongly.


earthly

earthly (comparative more earthly, superlative most earthly)

more earthly (comparative)
most earthly (superlative)

From Middle English erthely, erthlich, ierðlich, from Old English eorþlīċ, corresponding to earth + -ly. Cognate with Old Norse jarðligr (“earthly”).

But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

and dost thou, indeed, revive to existence only to again (even in more attempered blood) design the death of the innocent, helpless, orphaned memorial of a pure, a heaven and earthly-sanctioned flame, whose venial trespass was but the forestalment of your own decree?

1827, Sarah Wilmot Wells, Tales; Mournful, Mirthful, and Marvellous, volume 3, page 94:

And here again we observe the great advantage of the heavenly over the earthly appointed courts.

1886, Thomas Martin McWhinney, Reason and Revelation, Hand in Hand, page 324:

Under such circumstances it is wise that church and state be separated, for such an earthly ordained priesthood has no more ability to rule wisely than have civil rulers.

1927, Harriette Augusta Curtiss, The Message of Aquaria, page 431:

The Lord has allowed me to see a striking similarity between this heavenly anointed cherub and this earthly anointed cherub (messenger) of God.

2010, Patricia Ann Sunday, Jimmy Swaggart: the Anointed Cherub That Covereth, page 1:

Qualifications are heavenly ordained, not earthly appointed; it is God Who has qualified us as saints and made us fit to share in His eternal salvation. It is not our own efforts and accomplishments that have qualified us; […]

2016, Bruce W. Hubbard, Marlene Hubbard, The Way of Grace:


inevitably

evitably

antonym(s) of “in a manner that is impossible to avoid”

Inevitably, all creatures eventually die.

The sun inevitably rises.

Despite the town's best efforts, the dam inevitably gave way.

The inevitably cold winter approaches.

In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.

1960 June, “Diesel locomotive operation on the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 374:

In a manner that is impossible to avoid or prevent.

onvermydelik

in a manner that this impossible to avoid

Inevitably, the next-door neighbour began to mow his lawn just as she lays down her head after a long night shift.

The child inevitably began to cry when his mother went to work.

The inevitably long line of customers queued for the latest 'Harry Potter'.


cruelly

cruelly (comparative more cruelly, superlative most cruelly)

more cruelly (comparative)
most cruelly (superlative)

From Middle English cruelly; equivalent to cruel + -ly.

In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered.

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, page 26, columns 1–2:


incessantly

He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.

We see the eye subdued, the practised smile, / The word well weighed before it pass the lip, / And know not of the misery within: / Yet there it works incessantly, and fears / The time to come; for time is terrible, / Avenging, and betraying.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Confession”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 136:

There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.

1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau and William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 14:

"You are old, Father William," the young man said, / "And your hair has become very white; / And yet you incessantly stand on your head— / Do you think, at your age, it is right?"

1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Advice from a Caterpillar”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 63:

But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 59:

In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.


smexily

smexily (comparative more smexily, superlative most smexily)

more smexily (comparative)
most smexily (superlative)

(Internet, colloquial) sexily; in a sexy way


princely

princely (comparative more princely, superlative most princely)

more princely (comparative)
most princely (superlative)

[…] my appetite was not princely gote, […]

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

Oilman Hall and I tried to interest him in noticing Morgan Robertson, who was passing near the corner of Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third Street, princely dressed in a frock coat and top hat.

1914, Arthur W. Page, “Little Pictures of O. Henry”, in The Book Man: An Illustrated Magazine of Literature and Life, volume XXXVIII, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, chapter IV (The New York Days—Richard Duffy’s Narrative), page 171:

“And if this Señor Regan be princely generous, he may give you and me the munificent sum that was mentioned, eh? Five times the sum, or ten times, with this Gringo tiger blowing down law and order and our good jail-walls, would be nearer the mark.”

1916, Jack London, chapter VI, in Hearts of Three, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published 1920, page 82:

Has the princely generous Dr. Townsend turned traitor to the old folks?

1938 December 11, “Dr. Townsend Shaves His Plan”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 91, number 97, St. Louis, Mo., page 2F:

Ron was blithely standing at the window looking out. He was princely dressed in a black suit, and a cream-colored polo sweater. Ron turned around looking debonair as usual.

2005, Paula Perry-McKay, Romance of a Lifetime, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 172:

These are the accepted truths to all who encountered or knew of the princely dressed first sacker, whose three-piece suits and brown velvet derby defined him.

2006, Thomas Porky McDonald, “Beyond the Plate”, in Never These Men: One Man’s Look at Baseball’s Creatively Cultured Figures, Bloomington, Ind., Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, section “Tallman Tales”, page 187:

“Well, the sun was barely gone and the men had dispersed. It was just me and a small squad of men, about to do our rounds when this tall princely dressed man appeared out of nowhere. He was followed by a medium built man wearing the robes of a Caravan master.”

2013, J.L. Stewart, chapter 33, in Avarom and the Secret of the White Mist, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 355:

Harmeet was a 6 feet tall sardar, good sense of humor as all sardars do. He was also very princely dressed.

2014, Deepa Vaibhav Shah, I Love... An Incomplete Commitment, Partridge India, →ISBN:

She moved her big, beautiful, well-diluted eyes up and down his slender princely dressed form.

2017, Edgar Beaumont, Teleportkinesis, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

The men were princely dressed in pin striped suits, fedora hats and broad toe shoes with patterned vamps. I had only seen these desirably dressed men as moving watercolor images in Velvet Rose magazines.

2020, Veronica Purcell, The Fourth Zaldizko (Seriphyn Knight Chronicles; book 2), Katarr Kanticles Press, page 7:

In the manner of a royal prince's conduct.


womanlike

womanlike (comparative more womanlike, superlative most womanlike)

more womanlike (comparative)
most womanlike (superlative)

I really meant it for a compliment, and to put her in a good mood; but, woman-like, she took it the wrong way.

1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 313:

In a manner perceived to be characteristic of a woman.


off label

While the drug is approved for use in treating stomach cancer, many doctors prescribe it off label for other cancers as well.

(medicine, of a prescription medication) Outside of regulatorily approved indications, but (unless otherwise specified) within the bounds of reasonable use as defined by a licensed prescriber.


bein

bein (comparative more bein, superlative most bein)

more bein (comparative)
most bein (superlative)

From Middle English been, beene, bene (“gracious, generous, pleasant”), of unknown origin. Perhaps from Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”), from Proto-Germanic *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See also bain.


honestly

en-adv

honestly (comparative more honestly, superlative most honestly)

more honestly (comparative)
most honestly (superlative)

From Middle English honestly, honestlyche, honestliche, equivalent to honest + -ly.

He answered the questions honestly.

Honestly, I didn't believe a word she said.


hereafter

/hɪəˈɹɑːftə/

From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.

inh

She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.

c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “Act V Scene V”, in Macbeth:

[…] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]

1693, John Dryden, The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache, translation of The Iliad by Homer:

(dated) In time to come; in some future time or state.

Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)


au naturel

Borrowed from French au naturel (literally “in the natural”).

bor

Bella loved posing for the artist au naturel.

“There's nary a pubic hair in sight in most porn,” wrote Cindy Gallop in Make Love Not Porn, “which puts a whole lot of grooming pressure on women and is actually rather depressing for those men who like women au naturel.”

2018, August McLaughlin, Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment, Amberjack Publishing, →ISBN:

Having untrimmed pubic hair (especially of women).

“Well, few of us are blessed with flawless complexions such as yours, so if you want to go au naturel, that's fine by me.”

2013, Laura Lascarso, Counting Backwards, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 134:

Why did some women eschew makeup? It seemed to be a recent trend for her. Had her religious fiancé requested she go au naturel?

2014, Daryl Wood Gerber, Stirring the Plot, Penguin, →ISBN, page 121:

Without makeup and with one's natural hair color.


unabashedly

en-adv

unabashedly (comparative more unabashedly, superlative most unabashedly)

more unabashedly (comparative)
most unabashedly (superlative)

/ˌʌnəˈbæʃɪdli/

In an unabashed manner; without embarrassment or hesitation.


just the same

He didn't like it one bit, but he smiled just the same.