yieldingly

yieldingly (comparative more yieldingly, superlative most yieldingly)

more yieldingly (comparative)
most yieldingly (superlative)

He tooke her in his armes, as yet ſo coyiſh to be kiſt / As Mayds that knovv themſelues belou'd and yeeldingly reſiſt.

1602, William Warner, “The Eight Booke. Chapter .”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 202:

A sudden stillness came on them both, a sense of something momentous that must happen. Flory reached across and took her other hand. It came yieldingly, willingly.

1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

The wet sand is as dark and more yieldingly solid than fudge and waking across a panful is a promenade in the Kingdom of Sweets.

1974, Angela Carter, “The Smile of Winter”, in Fireworks, London: Virago, published 1988, page 44:


sociopathically

en-adv

sociopathically (comparative more sociopathically, superlative most sociopathically)

more sociopathically (comparative)
most sociopathically (superlative)


unsubstantially

unsubstantially (comparative more unsubstantially, superlative most unsubstantially)

more unsubstantially (comparative)
most unsubstantially (superlative)


speakingly

speakingly (comparative more speakingly, superlative most speakingly)

more speakingly (comparative)
most speakingly (superlative)

From Middle English spekingly, equivalent to speaking + -ly.


enow

From Middle English ynowe, strong plural and weak form of ynogh (“enough”); see enough for more.


exhortatively

exhortatively (comparative more exhortatively, superlative most exhortatively)

more exhortatively (comparative)
most exhortatively (superlative)


dyslexically

dyslexically (comparative more dyslexically, superlative most dyslexically)

more dyslexically (comparative)
most dyslexically (superlative)


nick of time

in the nick of time
in the nick of time#English

Alternative form of in the nick of time; just in time


hortatively

hortatively (comparative more hortatively, superlative most hortatively)

more hortatively (comparative)
most hortatively (superlative)


mountainously

mountainously (comparative more mountainously, superlative most mountainously)

more mountainously (comparative)
most mountainously (superlative)

From mountainous + -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.

Besides her fruitfull earth, her mightie breadth and length,
Doth Chiltern fitly match: which mountainously hie,
And beeing very long, so likewise shee doth lie;

1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 15 p. 3:


scraggily

scraggily (comparative more scraggily, superlative most scraggily)

more scraggily (comparative)
most scraggily (superlative)


unthankfully

unthankfully (comparative more unthankfully, superlative most unthankfully)

more unthankfully (comparative)
most unthankfully (superlative)

From Middle English unthankefully, equivalent to unthankful + -ly.


unattainably

unattainably (comparative more unattainably, superlative most unattainably)

more unattainably (comparative)
most unattainably (superlative)


grassily

grassily (comparative more grassily, superlative most grassily)

more grassily (comparative)
most grassily (superlative)


folklorically

folklorically (comparative more folklorically, superlative most folklorically)

more folklorically (comparative)
most folklorically (superlative)


unformedly

unformedly (comparative more unformedly, superlative most unformedly)

more unformedly (comparative)
most unformedly (superlative)


inchoately

inchoately (comparative more inchoately, superlative most inchoately)

more inchoately (comparative)
most inchoately (superlative)


unreachably

unreachably (comparative more unreachably, superlative most unreachably)

more unreachably (comparative)
most unreachably (superlative)

Largely through black-and-white rehearsal stills of Barbagallo, Davis and Kaminsky, shot at The Brick in Brooklyn, it captures what theater feels like — the everyday incantation of it, and how unreachably far away that seems now.

2021 January 25, Laura Collins-Hughes, “When Theatermakers Long for the Stage, Playfully”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-25:


smirkingly

smirkingly (comparative more smirkingly, superlative most smirkingly)

more smirkingly (comparative)
most smirkingly (superlative)


rainily

rainily (comparative more rainily, superlative most rainily)

more rainily (comparative)
most rainily (superlative)


unforthcomingly

unforthcomingly (comparative more unforthcomingly, superlative most unforthcomingly)

more unforthcomingly (comparative)
most unforthcomingly (superlative)

He looked slyly at the Scotland Yard man and probed him, "You know who tbey think did it, don't you?" "Yes," said Inspector Hughes unforthcomingly.

1965, Vivian Collin Brooks, At One Fell Swoop, page 169:

Burns replies politely but unforthcomingly about this poem; he uses his allegedly untutored social manners to excuse his lack of response.

1995, Moira Ferguson, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender, page 96:

Passing the army camp we were spoken to by men hanging about there, but when we only grunted in answer unforthcomingly, they paid no further attention to us.


zestlessly

zestlessly (comparative more zestlessly, superlative most zestlessly)

more zestlessly (comparative)
most zestlessly (superlative)

"Shrimps That Crawl in Chesapeake Bay, Served Up Fresh Here Every Day," he rhymed zestlessly from old habit.

1945, Henry Morton Robinson, The Perfect Round:


zetetically

zetetically (comparative more zetetically, superlative most zetetically)

more zetetically (comparative)
most zetetically (superlative)

It would be somewhat too long a work for this place Zetetically to examine, and positively to prove, what particular kind of motion it is that must be the efficient of Light […].

1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section IX:

In a zetetic way; by means of investigation.


fuckingly

That whole pack of academically defunct eternally matriculated and fuckingly overpaid nuts and what are they saying?

1971, Paul Zindel, And Miss Reardon drinks a little:

I have this connection in New York, he gets the most fuckingly beautiful Stickley pieces. Expensive.

All that swirl of events and factors led to one fuckingly cool decade, didn't it, my brothers and oh my sisters?

2003, Jeff Tamarkin, Jann Wenner, Paul Kantner, Got a revolution!:

(vulgar) Fucking, extremely (as an intensifier).


plutocratically

plutocratically (comparative more plutocratically, superlative most plutocratically)

more plutocratically (comparative)
most plutocratically (superlative)


pyrochemically

In a pyrochemical way; by means of pyrochemistry.


unfacetiously

unfacetiously (comparative more unfacetiously, superlative most unfacetiously)

more unfacetiously (comparative)
most unfacetiously (superlative)


Irishly

Irishly (comparative more Irishly, superlative most Irishly)

more Irishly (comparative)
most Irishly (superlative)

In an Irish way; in a manner characteristic of the Irish people.


Scottishly

Scottishly (comparative more Scottishly, superlative most Scottishly)

more Scottishly (comparative)
most Scottishly (superlative)

In an Scottish way; in a manner characteristic of the Scottish people.


abandonly

abandonly (comparative more abandonly, superlative most abandonly)

more abandonly (comparative)
most abandonly (superlative)

The body, wrapped in many clothes, is borne on a kind of bier, round which men leap wildly and abandonly, trying to touch it.

1915, Robert Keable, A City of the Dawn:

In a wild and unrestrained manner; abandonedly.


elastodynamically

elastodynamically (comparative more elastodynamically, superlative most elastodynamically)

more elastodynamically (comparative)
most elastodynamically (superlative)


elastohydrodynamically

elastohydrodynamically (comparative more elastohydrodynamically, superlative most elastohydrodynamically)

more elastohydrodynamically (comparative)
most elastohydrodynamically (superlative)


elastomerically

elastomerically (comparative more elastomerically, superlative most elastomerically)

more elastomerically (comparative)
most elastomerically (superlative)


unsymmetrically

unsymmetrically (comparative more unsymmetrically, superlative most unsymmetrically)

more unsymmetrically (comparative)
most unsymmetrically (superlative)


acop

Marry she's not in fashion yet; she wears a hood, but it stands acop.

1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):


evitably

evitably (comparative more evitably, superlative most evitably)

more evitably (comparative)
most evitably (superlative)


Englishly

Englishly (comparative more Englishly, superlative most Englishly)

more Englishly (comparative)
most Englishly (superlative)


verminously

verminously (comparative more verminously, superlative most verminously)

more verminously (comparative)
most verminously (superlative)


unpatriotically

unpatriotically (comparative more unpatriotically, superlative most unpatriotically)

more unpatriotically (comparative)
most unpatriotically (superlative)


randily

randily (comparative more randily, superlative most randily)

more randily (comparative)
most randily (superlative)


unprepossessingly

unprepossessingly (comparative more unprepossessingly, superlative most unprepossessingly)

more unprepossessingly (comparative)
most unprepossessingly (superlative)


dancingly

dancingly (comparative more dancingly, superlative most dancingly)

more dancingly (comparative)
most dancingly (superlative)

In a dancing way; with dancelike movements.


swervingly

swervingly (comparative more swervingly, superlative most swervingly)

more swervingly (comparative)
most swervingly (superlative)

In a swerving way; with deviations; indirectly.


unadventurously

unadventurously (comparative more unadventurously, superlative most unadventurously)

more unadventurously (comparative)
most unadventurously (superlative)

Rick decided to try the alligator burger, but Beth unadventurously ordered a salad.


unmajestically

unmajestically (comparative more unmajestically, superlative most unmajestically)

more unmajestically (comparative)
most unmajestically (superlative)


swayingly

swayingly (comparative more swayingly, superlative most swayingly)

more swayingly (comparative)
most swayingly (superlative)


alienably

alienably (comparative more alienably, superlative most alienably)

more alienably (comparative)
most alienably (superlative)


belchingly

belchingly (comparative more belchingly, superlative most belchingly)

more belchingly (comparative)
most belchingly (superlative)


undiplomatically

undiplomatically (comparative more undiplomatically, superlative most undiplomatically)

more undiplomatically (comparative)
most undiplomatically (superlative)


campily

campily (comparative more campily, superlative most campily)

more campily (comparative)
most campily (superlative)

CN also included a mock spread titled “Heterosexuality in America,” campily dismissing and rejecting the power of LIFE to depict their lives.

2012, Todd J. Ormsbee, The Meaning of Gay: Interaction, Publicity, and Community among Homosexual Men in 1960s San Francisco, page 68:


brickwise

In the manner of bricks, especially the overlapping way in which they are assembled into a wall.


unmeaningly

unmeaningly (comparative more unmeaningly, superlative most unmeaningly)

more unmeaningly (comparative)
most unmeaningly (superlative)

Apropos of Van Balen, an artist who painted me lately had painted a blackamoor praying; and not filling his canvas, stuffed in his little girl aside of a blacky gaping at him unmeaningly; and then did not know what to call it.

1942, Eva Beatrice Dykes, The Negro in English Romantic Thought, page 91:

All unmeaningly I started a little argument that furnished you with some splendid discussions, and, though my name wasn't mentioned, I'll admit it.

1929, Printers' Ink, volume 147, page 128:


corruptingly

corruptingly (comparative more corruptingly, superlative most corruptingly)

more corruptingly (comparative)
most corruptingly (superlative)


underwhelmingly

underwhelmingly (comparative more underwhelmingly, superlative most underwhelmingly)

more underwhelmingly (comparative)
most underwhelmingly (superlative)


interruptingly

interruptingly (comparative more interruptingly, superlative most interruptingly)

more interruptingly (comparative)
most interruptingly (superlative)


detailingly

detailingly (comparative more detailingly, superlative most detailingly)

more detailingly (comparative)
most detailingly (superlative)

(rare) In the manner of one who details.


corruptedly

corruptedly (comparative more corruptedly, superlative most corruptedly)

more corruptedly (comparative)
most corruptedly (superlative)


harrumphingly

harrumphingly (comparative more harrumphingly, superlative most harrumphingly)

more harrumphingly (comparative)
most harrumphingly (superlative)

(rare) In the manner of one harrumphing.


interruptedly

interruptedly (comparative more interruptedly, superlative most interruptedly)

more interruptedly (comparative)
most interruptedly (superlative)


springingly

springingly (comparative more springingly, superlative most springingly)

more springingly (comparative)
most springingly (superlative)

In a springing manner; with springs or leaps.


worrily

worrily (comparative more worrily, superlative most worrily)

more worrily (comparative)
most worrily (superlative)


woodedly

woodedly (comparative more woodedly, superlative most woodedly)

more woodedly (comparative)
most woodedly (superlative)


effulgently

effulgently (comparative more effulgently, superlative most effulgently)

more effulgently (comparative)
most effulgently (superlative)


forestallingly

forestallingly (comparative more forestallingly, superlative most forestallingly)

more forestallingly (comparative)
most forestallingly (superlative)

Now he began to feel that in him, the thews of a Titan were forestallingly cut by the scissors of Fate.

1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:

He utters his groan, anticipatingly, and forestallingly, and in love.

1870, James Morison, Commentary on the Gospel according to Matthew, page 579:

Don't count on it, Olivia! (Forestallingly) I got your letter!

1956, Enid Bagnold, The Chalk Garden: A Play:


strollingly

strollingly (comparative more strollingly, superlative most strollingly)

more strollingly (comparative)
most strollingly (superlative)


discriminatorily

discriminatorily (comparative more discriminatorily, superlative most discriminatorily)

more discriminatorily (comparative)
most discriminatorily (superlative)


lightheadedly

lightheadedly (comparative more lightheadedly, superlative most lightheadedly)

more lightheadedly (comparative)
most lightheadedly (superlative)


unqualifiedly

unqualifiedly (comparative more unqualifiedly, superlative most unqualifiedly)

more unqualifiedly (comparative)
most unqualifiedly (superlative)


proximately

proximately (comparative more proximately, superlative most proximately)

more proximately (comparative)
most proximately (superlative)

In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.


niftily

niftily (comparative more niftily, superlative most niftily)

more niftily (comparative)
most niftily (superlative)


maimedly

maimedly (comparative more maimedly, superlative most maimedly)

more maimedly (comparative)
most maimedly (superlative)


zeitgeistily

zeitgeistily (comparative more zeitgeistily, superlative most zeitgeistily)

more zeitgeistily (comparative)
most zeitgeistily (superlative)

OK, fair enough, maybe some people don't think the hair and suits work, but my point is that on Friday night we saw a Jonathan Ross who has clearly grown up and put away childish things, which was not only an essential career move but, post-inauguration, also a zeitgeistily fashionable nod to Obama.

2009 January 25, Kathryn Flett, “Kathryn Flett: Jonathan Ross was great. Shame about Tom Cruise”, in The Observer:


maladaptively

maladaptively (comparative more maladaptively, superlative most maladaptively)

more maladaptively (comparative)
most maladaptively (superlative)


mangily

mangily (comparative more mangily, superlative most mangily)

more mangily (comparative)
most mangily (superlative)


tuskwise

Nay without this law / Of mandom, ye would perish, — beast by beast / Devouring, — tree by tree, with strangling roots / And trunks set tuskwise.

1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile:

...part of the jaw bone of a whale, propped up tuskwise.

Alec laughs so hard his eyes glaze and his cheeks flush, and even Nicholas is chortling now. Edward forges ahead, holding up his fingers tuskwise...


masculinely

masculinely (comparative more masculinely, superlative most masculinely)

more masculinely (comparative)
most masculinely (superlative)


approximatively

approximatively (comparative more approximatively, superlative most approximatively)

more approximatively (comparative)
most approximatively (superlative)


iffily

iffily (comparative more iffily, superlative most iffily)

more iffily (comparative)
most iffily (superlative)


nauther

nauther (comparative more nauther, superlative most nauther)

more nauther (comparative)
most nauther (superlative)

From Old English nauþer, nawþer, from na + hwæþer.


interculturally

interculturally (comparative more interculturally, superlative most interculturally)

more interculturally (comparative)
most interculturally (superlative)

In an intercultural way; between cultures.


unmappably

unmappably (comparative more unmappably, superlative most unmappably)

more unmappably (comparative)
most unmappably (superlative)

an unmappably tortuous labyrinth


unchartably

unchartably (comparative more unchartably, superlative most unchartably)

more unchartably (comparative)
most unchartably (superlative)


v.g.

Abbreviation of Latin verbī grātiā (“for instance”). Grātiā here is in the ablative case.

(abbreviation, initialism) Used to introduce an example or list of examples to illustrate what is being discussed.


unadulterously

[…] seeing many beasts in voluntary and chosen couples, live together as unadulterously, and are as truly married in that respect.

1643, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:

One would have to be very unworldly to believe that most men of this kind live ascetically and unadulterously.

1965, Melita Maschmann, Account Rendered: A Dossíer on My Former Self, page 87:

And a big reason we were able to come together with such decisiveness is we were both emphatically, unadulteratedly, unadulterously single.

2011, David Eddie, Damage Control: How to Tiptoe Away from the Smoking Wreckage of Your Latest Screw-Up With a Minimum of Harm to Your Reputation:


jabberingly

jabberingly (comparative more jabberingly, superlative most jabberingly)

more jabberingly (comparative)
most jabberingly (superlative)


jabbingly

jabbingly (comparative more jabbingly, superlative most jabbingly)

more jabbingly (comparative)
most jabbingly (superlative)


coordinatingly

coordinatingly (comparative more coordinatingly, superlative most coordinatingly)

more coordinatingly (comparative)
most coordinatingly (superlative)


lexicostatistically

By means of, or in terms of, lexicostatistics.


jaggily

jaggily (comparative more jaggily, superlative most jaggily)

more jaggily (comparative)
most jaggily (superlative)


proliferatively

proliferatively (comparative more proliferatively, superlative most proliferatively)

more proliferatively (comparative)
most proliferatively (superlative)


uncoordinatedly

uncoordinatedly (comparative more uncoordinatedly, superlative most uncoordinatedly)

more uncoordinatedly (comparative)
most uncoordinatedly (superlative)

The little orchestra struck up the lively two-step currently sweeping civilized Europe, and Bevis, seizing Jacintha, began to stagger quite uncoördinatedly about the pocket-size saloon, while the game lass did her best to follow his lead, both of them singing, […]

2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 823:

Daniel bounds away, his long legs flying uncoordinatedly, still gangly.

2013, Bernardine Evaristo, Mr Loverman, Penguin Books (2020), page 301:


everytime

In order to receive the Taiwan fishermen compatriots, the Fujian Provincial Revolutionary Committee in early 1978 formally established these reception stations at the four fishing ports of Sansha in Xiapu [Hsiapu],[…]The Sansha reception station in Xiapu received 12 Taiwan fishing boats in 1978 and everytime^([sic]) helped repair the boats and engines, provided fuel and drinking water and purchased grain, meat, vegetables and other foods before they departed.

1979, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 12-22, →ISSN, →OCLC:


correlatingly

correlatingly (comparative more correlatingly, superlative most correlatingly)

more correlatingly (comparative)
most correlatingly (superlative)


correlatedly

correlatedly (comparative more correlatedly, superlative most correlatedly)

more correlatedly (comparative)
most correlatedly (superlative)


supportedly

supportedly (comparative more supportedly, superlative most supportedly)

more supportedly (comparative)
most supportedly (superlative)


of all

Best of all was the bicycle I got. First of all, I'd like to thank my agent. He was the greatest playwright of all.

Used as an intensifier with superlative forms of adjectives.

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Wolves, sensing the comeback of all comebacks was on the cards, kept pressing and set up an exciting finish when Ronald Zubar's header was judged to have crossed the line, even though it appeared that Nigel de Jong had successfully cleared the effort.

2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4-3 Wolves”, in BBC:

Used as an intensifier with nouns to denote being ultimate.


correlatively

correlatively (comparative more correlatively, superlative most correlatively)

more correlatively (comparative)
most correlatively (superlative)


full tilt boogie

So we ran, full tilt boogie. Behind us, the footsteps echoed. ¶ Natalie and I shot around the corner. Before our pursuers appeared, I pointed up. Natalie flapped to the roof. I scrambled after her.

2004, Bruce Hale, The Malted Falcon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 55:

I told myself, I'm going to die reaching these goals. I had to go full-tilt boogie, or I'd suck.

2006, Mike Zimmerman, Men's Health; Succeed Like This Joker, Rodale, Inc., page 166

(idiomatic) At the most extreme level; at full capacity.

täyttä häkää

at the most extreme level; at full capacity


jumpingly

jumpingly (comparative more jumpingly, superlative most jumpingly)

more jumpingly (comparative)
most jumpingly (superlative)


jointedly

In a jointed way; with, or by means of, joints.


joltingly

joltingly (comparative more joltingly, superlative most joltingly)

more joltingly (comparative)
most joltingly (superlative)

Through the thicker mist that afternoon a white tilted cart sailed joltingly, taking its bearings from the various landmarks rather than from the undefined track.

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 45:

In a jolting way; with abrupt, uneven shakes or knocks.


babily

babily (comparative more babily, superlative most babily)

more babily (comparative)
most babily (superlative)

Assuredly a Dudley Sowerby would be immensely startled to find his bride a young woman more than babily aware of the existence of one particular form of naughtiness on earth.

1910, George Meredith, The Works of George Meredith, page 148:


babishly

babishly (comparative more babishly, superlative most babishly)

more babishly (comparative)
most babishly (superlative)

Is not this a proper kind of reasoning? is this the reverence due to the scriptures, thus babishly to abuse them?

1848, John Whitgift, John Ayre, Works of Archbishop Whitgift, page 12:


staringly

staringly (comparative more staringly, superlative most staringly)

more staringly (comparative)
most staringly (superlative)


subtractively

subtractively (comparative more subtractively, superlative most subtractively)

more subtractively (comparative)
most subtractively (superlative)


hypergolically

hypergolically (comparative more hypergolically, superlative most hypergolically)

more hypergolically (comparative)
most hypergolically (superlative)


teratogenically

teratogenically (comparative more teratogenically, superlative most teratogenically)

more teratogenically (comparative)
most teratogenically (superlative)


tardively

tardively (comparative more tardively, superlative most tardively)

more tardively (comparative)
most tardively (superlative)


percutaneously

In a percutaneous way; through the skin.


criminogenically

criminogenically (comparative more criminogenically, superlative most criminogenically)

more criminogenically (comparative)
most criminogenically (superlative)


intrathecally

In an intrathecal way; into the spinal canal.


naturopathically

naturopathically (comparative more naturopathically, superlative most naturopathically)

more naturopathically (comparative)
most naturopathically (superlative)


favouringly

favouringly (comparative more favouringly, superlative most favouringly)

more favouringly (comparative)
most favouringly (superlative)


favoringly

favoringly (comparative more favoringly, superlative most favoringly)

more favoringly (comparative)
most favoringly (superlative)


segmentally

segmentally (comparative more segmentally, superlative most segmentally)

more segmentally (comparative)
most segmentally (superlative)


psychodramatically

psychodramatically (comparative more psychodramatically, superlative most psychodramatically)

more psychodramatically (comparative)
most psychodramatically (superlative)

By forcing their suitors to be earnest or sincere, the women psychodramatically circumscribe them.

In a psychodramatic way; in terms of a psychodrama.


complimentarily

complimentarily (comparative more complimentarily, superlative most complimentarily)

more complimentarily (comparative)
most complimentarily (superlative)


unintellectually

unintellectually (comparative more unintellectually, superlative most unintellectually)

more unintellectually (comparative)
most unintellectually (superlative)


deridingly

deridingly (comparative more deridingly, superlative most deridingly)

more deridingly (comparative)
most deridingly (superlative)


goatishly

goatishly (comparative more goatishly, superlative most goatishly)

more goatishly (comparative)
most goatishly (superlative)


yeap

"Yeap, I do. D'you see that chair on the porch?"

1950, Conrad Aiken, The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken:

I told her, "Yeap. I'm here on vacation." We both smiled, as she told me, "Me too."

2003, Rick W. White, Comes Like a Raging Fire:

Yeap, I'm coming back in my next life as a daughter of one of my friends. I would never have to worry about looking ugly.

2009, Terri Lee Ryan, Life Is One Big To-Do List: A Woman's Life After 40:


oozingly

oozingly (comparative more oozingly, superlative most oozingly)

more oozingly (comparative)
most oozingly (superlative)


stompingly

stompingly (comparative more stompingly, superlative most stompingly)

more stompingly (comparative)
most stompingly (superlative)


stompily

stompily (comparative more stompily, superlative most stompily)

more stompily (comparative)
most stompily (superlative)


oozily

oozily (comparative more oozily, superlative most oozily)

more oozily (comparative)
most oozily (superlative)


artsily

artsily (comparative more artsily, superlative most artsily)

more artsily (comparative)
most artsily (superlative)


errantly

errantly (comparative more errantly, superlative most errantly)

more errantly (comparative)
most errantly (superlative)


kindlily

kindlily (comparative more kindlily, superlative most kindlily)

more kindlily (comparative)
most kindlily (superlative)

He is also irritated in vain ; for, whenever did prohibition fall kindlily on the young author's ear? — how then could it be made grateful to the old ?


overcautiously

overcautiously (comparative more overcautiously, superlative most overcautiously)

more overcautiously (comparative)
most overcautiously (superlative)


irresolvably

irresolvably (comparative more irresolvably, superlative most irresolvably)

more irresolvably (comparative)
most irresolvably (superlative)


flourishingly

flourishingly (comparative more flourishingly, superlative most flourishingly)

more flourishingly (comparative)
most flourishingly (superlative)

In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.


ensuingly

ensuingly (comparative more ensuingly, superlative most ensuingly)

more ensuingly (comparative)
most ensuingly (superlative)

A corollary to the ephemeralizing-toward-pure-energy progression that is taking place throughout all science, and, ensuingly, throughout industry—which simply translates science into bread and butter for people—is that the more abstract the means of accomplishment the more specific the results[.]

2001, Richard Buckminister Fuller et al., Your Private Sky: Discourse, →ISBN, page 116:


irreprovably

irreprovably (comparative more irreprovably, superlative most irreprovably)

more irreprovably (comparative)
most irreprovably (superlative)

In a irreprovable manner; irreproachably.


irresolubly

irresolubly (comparative more irresolubly, superlative most irresolubly)

more irresolubly (comparative)
most irresolubly (superlative)

We have argued that there is no independent way of resolving this issue and that different people may come to irresolubly conflicting conclusions on which is the correct position to take.

1999, Paul Johnston, chapter 4, in Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy Ethics After Wittgenstein, →ISBN, page 102:


irrespectively

From irrespective + -ly or ir- + respectively.

Corresponding to exactly 2 items in the opposite order they were listed.

This suggests that consistency plays a role irrespectively of frequency.

2003, Patrick Bonin, chapter 8, in Mental Lexicon: Some Words to Talk About Words, →ISBN, page 175:

Without regard to conditions; not taking circumstances into consideration.


movably

movably (comparative more movably, superlative most movably)

more movably (comparative)
most movably (superlative)


eem

Common spelling of even in nonstandard orthographies based on spoken African American English. Final -m indicates the nasalization of the preceding vowel.

(African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard form of even.


tropologically

tropologically (comparative more tropologically, superlative most tropologically)

more tropologically (comparative)
most tropologically (superlative)


imbecilically

imbecilically (comparative more imbecilically, superlative most imbecilically)

more imbecilically (comparative)
most imbecilically (superlative)


sulphurously

sulphurously (comparative more sulphurously, superlative most sulphurously)

more sulphurously (comparative)
most sulphurously (superlative)


sulfurously

sulfurously (comparative more sulfurously, superlative most sulfurously)

more sulfurously (comparative)
most sulfurously (superlative)


anorectically

anorectically (comparative more anorectically, superlative most anorectically)

more anorectically (comparative)
most anorectically (superlative)

She was anorectically thin.


philoprogenitively

philoprogenitively (comparative more philoprogenitively, superlative most philoprogenitively)

more philoprogenitively (comparative)
most philoprogenitively (superlative)


anorexically

anorexically (comparative more anorexically, superlative most anorexically)

more anorexically (comparative)
most anorexically (superlative)

The stars of the Right, which attracted a large following from the provincial nobility, were intransigents such as [...] Mirabeau's younger brother, the anorexically challenged Mirabeau-‘Tonneau’ (‘Mirabeau the Barrel’).

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 434:

Pertaining to loss of appetite or anorexia.


slurpingly

slurpingly (comparative more slurpingly, superlative most slurpingly)

more slurpingly (comparative)
most slurpingly (superlative)

They have been waiting a long time, very silently, the mud sucks slurpingly at a boot as a soldier changes his position, the mist thickens, beginning to turn to rain.

1965, Alvin Greenberg, The small waves, page 95:

[…] they sucked the juicy meat out of their crab legs slurpingly […]

2009, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, At The Breakers, page 62:

In a slurping way; with slurping sounds.


squashingly

squashingly (comparative more squashingly, superlative most squashingly)

more squashingly (comparative)
most squashingly (superlative)

Crooke was allowed to set his own question for his second examination, hut was still, rather squashingly, not approved […]

2003, Margaret Pelling, Frances White, Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London:


metafictionally

metafictionally (comparative more metafictionally, superlative most metafictionally)

more metafictionally (comparative)
most metafictionally (superlative)


thyroidally

Using an instrument specially devised by Rosenthal, the Iipiodol may be injected intercrico-thyroidally with even better results.

1925, The American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy, page 268:

In view of the possibility of feeding thyroidally active substances to increase milk production it is important to know whether or not some of this material would be secreted in the milk.

1946, Vitamins and Hormones, volume 4, page 244:

Intriguingly, the rat C1b isoform of the calcitonin receptor (CTR) (see Section VI-B) has very little interaction with the thyroidally derived form of calcitonin.

1997, Louis V. Avioli, Metabolic Bone Disease and Clinically Related Disorders, page 98:


ectothermically

I am not at the mercy of the elements, ectothermically dependent on external sources of heat to spur my every move.

2007 February 20, Natalie Angier, “A Mammal in Winter With a Furnace of Her Own”, in New York Times:


banefully

banefully (comparative more banefully, superlative most banefully)

more banefully (comparative)
most banefully (superlative)

True, there might be a slight difficulty in the shame, but as regarded the sin, there was no item of that kind ever scored down on the Bar-slate that had its own familiar peg whereon to hang such tales of evil as must pain and shock every pure mind—tales of devilish import, eventualizing, in most instances, most grievously and banefully—in rags, want of food, perhaps in crime, and almost, for certain, in pauperism!

1855, J. Dacres Devlin, Rules & Regulations of the Ballast-Heavers' Brotherhood of the Port of London:


saleably

saleably (comparative more saleably, superlative most saleably)

more saleably (comparative)
most saleably (superlative)


thermogravimetrically

In terms of, or by means of, thermogravimetry.


parlously

parlously (comparative more parlously, superlative most parlously)

more parlously (comparative)
most parlously (superlative)


skinnily

skinnily (comparative more skinnily, superlative most skinnily)

more skinnily (comparative)
most skinnily (superlative)


geotechnically

geotechnically (comparative more geotechnically, superlative most geotechnically)

more geotechnically (comparative)
most geotechnically (superlative)


mucously

mucously (comparative more mucously, superlative most mucously)

more mucously (comparative)
most mucously (superlative)


musculoskeletally

musculoskeletally (comparative more musculoskeletally, superlative most musculoskeletally)

more musculoskeletally (comparative)
most musculoskeletally (superlative)


paramagnetically

paramagnetically (comparative more paramagnetically, superlative most paramagnetically)

more paramagnetically (comparative)
most paramagnetically (superlative)


fictiously

‘I put the question fictiously, knowing what must be the answer.’

1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book V, chapter 51:

(obsolete) In a fictious way; fictitiously.


antifungally

antifungally (comparative more antifungally, superlative most antifungally)

more antifungally (comparative)
most antifungally (superlative)


thoracically

performed thoracically

In a thoracic way, as:
(surgery) Via a thoracic approach.

In a thoracic way, as:
Via a thoracic approach.

thoracically conjoined

In a thoracic way, as:
(development, of twins) At the thorax.


festeringly

festeringly (comparative more festeringly, superlative most festeringly)

more festeringly (comparative)
most festeringly (superlative)


uninterestedly

uninterestedly (comparative more uninterestedly, superlative most uninterestedly)

more uninterestedly (comparative)
most uninterestedly (superlative)


eidetically

eidetically (comparative more eidetically, superlative most eidetically)

more eidetically (comparative)
most eidetically (superlative)


fustily

fustily (comparative more fustily, superlative most fustily)

more fustily (comparative)
most fustily (superlative)


unsurprisedly

unsurprisedly (comparative more unsurprisedly, superlative most unsurprisedly)

more unsurprisedly (comparative)
most unsurprisedly (superlative)


frustratedly

frustratedly (comparative more frustratedly, superlative most frustratedly)

more frustratedly (comparative)
most frustratedly (superlative)


surprisedly

surprisedly (comparative more surprisedly, superlative most surprisedly)

more surprisedly (comparative)
most surprisedly (superlative)


exclamatorily

exclamatorily (comparative more exclamatorily, superlative most exclamatorily)

more exclamatorily (comparative)
most exclamatorily (superlative)


nondeterministically

nondeterministically (comparative more nondeterministically, superlative most nondeterministically)

more nondeterministically (comparative)
most nondeterministically (superlative)


unpropitiously

unpropitiously (comparative more unpropitiously, superlative most unpropitiously)

more unpropitiously (comparative)
most unpropitiously (superlative)


multifunctionally

multifunctionally (comparative more multifunctionally, superlative most multifunctionally)

more multifunctionally (comparative)
most multifunctionally (superlative)


diastereoselectively

diastereoselectively (comparative more diastereoselectively, superlative most diastereoselectively)

more diastereoselectively (comparative)
most diastereoselectively (superlative)


isolobally

isolobally (comparative more isolobally, superlative most isolobally)

more isolobally (comparative)
most isolobally (superlative)


feyly

feyly (comparative more feyly, superlative most feyly)

more feyly (comparative)
most feyly (superlative)


anastatically

anastatically (comparative more anastatically, superlative most anastatically)

more anastatically (comparative)
most anastatically (superlative)


sorcerously

sorcerously (comparative more sorcerously, superlative most sorcerously)

more sorcerously (comparative)
most sorcerously (superlative)

In a sorcerous way; by means of sorcery.


ghostlily

ghostlily (comparative more ghostlily, superlative most ghostlily)

more ghostlily (comparative)
most ghostlily (superlative)


qh

Abbreviation of Latin quāque hōra (supply in diē).

(medicine) quaque hora: every hour - used in medical pharmacy prescriptions usually with a numeral defining hours between doses. "q4h" read as: "taken every 4 hours". Also common is the format: "3 caps q4h" read as" means "Take 3 capsules every 4 hours."

List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions


mediately

A second [question] is, whether these Eggs are immediately dropt into the Water by the Gnats themselves, or, mediately, are brought down by the falling rain […]

1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLIII:

The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented.

1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, page 318:

In a mediate manner, by the intervention of an intermediary agent or means; indirectly.


mopily

mopily (comparative more mopily, superlative most mopily)

more mopily (comparative)
most mopily (superlative)


statuesquely

statuesquely (comparative more statuesquely, superlative most statuesquely)

more statuesquely (comparative)
most statuesquely (superlative)


sixtyfold

From Middle English sixtifold, sexti fold, from Old English sixtiġfeald (“sixtyfold”), equivalent to sixty + -fold.


divertingly

divertingly (comparative more divertingly, superlative most divertingly)

more divertingly (comparative)
most divertingly (superlative)

'Curse him, the dog! Never mind, Ursula, you'll be all right now we're here. No hat?' he asked divertingly, looking at her sunburnt face.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 234:

In a diverting manner; so as to divert attention.


squamously

squamously (comparative more squamously, superlative most squamously)

more squamously (comparative)
most squamously (superlative)


ergodically

ergodically (comparative more ergodically, superlative most ergodically)

more ergodically (comparative)
most ergodically (superlative)


prototropically

prototropically (comparative more prototropically, superlative most prototropically)

more prototropically (comparative)
most prototropically (superlative)


metastably

metastably (comparative more metastably, superlative most metastably)

more metastably (comparative)
most metastably (superlative)


contumeliously

contumeliously (comparative more contumeliously, superlative most contumeliously)

more contumeliously (comparative)
most contumeliously (superlative)

Lastly, Because I would take away all occasions which men might have to incur the danger of the penalty allowed by the Parliament by hindring them so to doe, at least untill I could so provide for my selfe, as that I need not to be extreamly rigorous against any, but such as shall contumeliously affront the Authority of my grant.

1648, William Petty, A Declaration Concerning the newly invented Art of Double Writing., page 4:


stubbily

stubbily (comparative more stubbily, superlative most stubbily)

more stubbily (comparative)
most stubbily (superlative)


placatively

placatively (comparative more placatively, superlative most placatively)

more placatively (comparative)
most placatively (superlative)

"All right," she said, placatively. "I didn't mean to bother you, dear."

1916, Booth Tarkington, chapter 29, in Seventeen:


something good

Guess you knocked that noggin of yours somethin' good."

1999, Jessica Speart, Bird Brained, page 56:

(degree, colloquial) To a significant degree.


something bad

Missed you somethin' bad, ol' man.

1986, Terry C. Johnston, Borderlords - Page 365:

(degree, colloquial) To a considerable degree; badly.


something terrible

I've got the hiccups something terrible, Mom.

1988 November 16, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes:

You see the streets have me stressed somethin' terrible.

1994, Nas, “"One Love"”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

I pamper them babies somethin terrible.

1999 Nov/Dec, E Annie Proulx, “The Blood Bay”, in Literary Cavalcade, volume 52, number 3, page 8:


elsewhither

From else + whither (“to which place, to what place”).

com

; more at somewhere else

[…] know that ‘impossible,’ where Truth and Mercy and the everlasting Voice of Nature order, has no place in the brave man’s dictionary. That when all men have said “Impossible,” and tumbled noisily elsewhither, and thou alone art left, then first thy time and possibility have come.

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Chapter VIII, The Didactic”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope), page 295:

With Strickland the sexual appetite took a very small place. It was unimportant. It was irksome. His soul aimed elsewhither.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 225:

(formal) To some other place; in some other direction.


cushily

en-adv

cushily (comparative more cushily, superlative most cushily)

more cushily (comparative)
most cushily (superlative)


barbariously

barbariously (comparative more barbariously, superlative most barbariously)

more barbariously (comparative)
most barbariously (superlative)


unprogressively

unprogressively (comparative more unprogressively, superlative most unprogressively)

more unprogressively (comparative)
most unprogressively (superlative)


in any way, shape, or form

in any way, shape, or form (not comparable)

[…] I beg that you will first present some evidence or proof that you are my superior in any way, shape, or form relative to the question in hand.

1909, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Rose of Dixie”, in Options:

We, the undersigned wagon-masters, assistants, teamsters and all other employees of the firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell, do hereby sign that we will not swear, drink whisky, play cards or be cruel to dumb beasts in any way, shape or form.

1920, Buffalo Bill, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, page 17:

“I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” she said in a petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate.

2022 June 21, Kari Paul, “Elon Musk’s daughter legally changes name and cuts ties with her father”, in The Guardian:

(idiomatic) In any way at all; whatsoever.


sidewards

sidewards (comparative more sidewards, superlative most sidewards)

more sidewards (comparative)
most sidewards (superlative)

From side + -wards. Compare Middle English syduardys (“sideways, obliquely”).


sideling

en-adv

sideling (comparative more sideling, superlative most sideling)

more sideling (comparative)
most sideling (superlative)

From Middle English sideling, sidelinge, equivalent to side + -ling.


sideward

sideward (comparative more sideward, superlative most sideward)

more sideward (comparative)
most sideward (superlative)

From side + -ward. Compare Middle English liftsideward (“leftward”, adjective).


straight out

Without concealment, obliquity, or compromise.


mightly

en-adv

mightly (comparative more mightly, superlative most mightly)

more mightly (comparative)
most mightly (superlative)

From Middle English myghtely, myȝtly, from Old English mihtlīċe, equivalent to might + -ly.

"[...] Must have been mightly well corked." "With every possible care, probably. [...]"

1904, John Ames Mitchell, The villa Claudia:

We need the best material possible, and I believe we have some mightly good material at the present time.

1922, American Hospital Association, Transactions:


counterproductively

counterproductively (comparative more counterproductively, superlative most counterproductively)

more counterproductively (comparative)
most counterproductively (superlative)


assoon

And assoone as shee saw them with her eyes, she doted vpon them, and sent messengers vnto them into Caldea.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:16:

It was placed there assoon as you began to look upon the Wall's small unevennesses.

1661, Thomas Salusbury, transl., Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems:

Thus shall end the dignity of Rome; and assoon after shall come the Antichrist.

1340, Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Prick of Conscience:

(obsolete) As soon (as might be); immediately; forthwith.


interestedly

interestedly (comparative more interestedly, superlative most interestedly)

more interestedly (comparative)
most interestedly (superlative)

'Tell'er yu'll gi' 'er a bottle ov rum, missus' insinuated Nungi interestedly.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 264:


out of thin air

They don't seem to want to work to earn a living. They think they can make money out of thin air.

"The criminal cases against Thanathorn show the military government's contempt for the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful dissent. It's a glaring example of how draconian laws are pulled out of thin air and arbitrarily enforced to punish the prominent opposition leader," he said.

2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06:

(idiomatic) From nowhere or nothing; from a non-existent or unknown source.


proportionably

proportionably (comparative more proportionably, superlative most proportionably)

more proportionably (comparative)
most proportionably (superlative)

Happy is that man that hath so proportionably directed his estate, as his riches may discharge and supply the same, without care or encombrance to himselfe[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.

1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, page 79:

In a proportionable manner; proportionately.


undisputably

undisputably (comparative more undisputably, superlative most undisputably)

more undisputably (comparative)
most undisputably (superlative)


unenlighteningly

unenlighteningly (comparative more unenlighteningly, superlative most unenlighteningly)

more unenlighteningly (comparative)
most unenlighteningly (superlative)


unrecoverably

unrecoverably (comparative more unrecoverably, superlative most unrecoverably)

more unrecoverably (comparative)
most unrecoverably (superlative)

The data on the hard disk was unrecoverably corrupted.

In an unrecoverable manner, or to an unrecoverable degree


otherways

Otherwise; by another means; in other respects

[…] you must now serve the upper part thereof with water as well as the under, and thereby keep the sap in equal motion, as well below as above ground; otherways the young branches of your trees will be parched, instead of being nourished […]

1759, James Justice, The British Gardener's Calendar:

(obsolete) Otherwise; in different circumstances.

(Scotland, obsolete) In a similar or comparable way; similarly.


bulkily

bulkily (comparative more bulkily, superlative most bulkily)

more bulkily (comparative)
most bulkily (superlative)


sure enough

Rain had been predicted for that day and, sure enough, it was beginning to rain.

Chaplin wouldn't be dissuaded. He knew that The Great Dictator was worth making, and, sure enough, it was a box office smash

2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC:

(idiomatic, evaluative) Just as one would expect.


emergently

emergently (comparative more emergently, superlative most emergently)

more emergently (comparative)
most emergently (superlative)

I have responded to his call, and have to the best of my ability explained the causes and effects of that defective condition of the Mercantile Marine, which has been much and loudly complained of; and I have, in a full and comprehensive manner, detailed all existing abuses, and suggested those remedial measures which I consider essentially necessary to obtain that system of reform which is so emergently required.

1850, The Nautical Magazine: A Technical and Critical Journal for the Officers of the Mercantile Marine, page 132:

For example, being ratified by a constitutionally bound legislative body is one way in which an institution can be emergently justified.

1996, John T. Sanders, For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings, page 95:

Similarly, for a three-dimensional Newtonian world with N point particles, it is unreasonable to hold that a single point particle in 3N-dimensional space emergently exists, even though there is a sense in which the 3N-dimensional configuration space with the single particle has a straightforward mathematical correspondence with the N point particles in three-dimensional space.

2013, Alyssa Ney, The Wave Function: Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics:

Then, with his emergently famous precision, he enumerated the flaws Bridges had made when he copied the map.

2013, Marguerite Holloway, The Measure of Manhattan:


iwis

From Middle English iwis, iwys, ywis (“certain, sure”), from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawiss, from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz (“known, certain, sure”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”).
Cognate with Dutch gewis (“sure”), German gewiss (“certain”), Danish vis (“sure”). More at wit, wis.

inh

Iwis, in all the Senate
 There was no heart so bold[…].

God vanished long ago, iwis, A mere subjective synthesis

1890, James Russell Lowell, Poetical Works:

(poetic, archaic) Certainly, surely, indeed.


expletively

en-adv

expletively (comparative more expletively, superlative most expletively)

more expletively (comparative)
most expletively (superlative)


diffusively

diffusively (comparative more diffusively, superlative most diffusively)

more diffusively (comparative)
most diffusively (superlative)


congenically

congenically (comparative more congenically, superlative most congenically)

more congenically (comparative)
most congenically (superlative)


kinematically

kinematically (comparative more kinematically, superlative most kinematically)

more kinematically (comparative)
most kinematically (superlative)


cannibalistically

cannibalistically (comparative more cannibalistically, superlative most cannibalistically)

more cannibalistically (comparative)
most cannibalistically (superlative)

They grow fat and strong on bunker, squid and, cannibalistically, themselves.

2009 August 23, Sam Sifton, “Something Fishy”, in New York Times:

In a cannibalistic manner; in a way that involves cannibalism


unsatisfyingly

unsatisfyingly (comparative more unsatisfyingly, superlative most unsatisfyingly)

more unsatisfyingly (comparative)
most unsatisfyingly (superlative)

The Haggler’s unsatisfyingly even-handed answer?

2009 August 23, David Segal, “Purchase Complete. (But There’s More!)”, in New York Times:

In a way or to an extent that is unsatisfying


unassimilably

unassimilably (comparative more unassimilably, superlative most unassimilably)

more unassimilably (comparative)
most unassimilably (superlative)

Although for the rest of her life fellow Brazilians regarded Lispector as unassimilably alien, she herself was adamant in claiming Brazil as her soul’s true home, the only place on earth where she could breathe free.

2009 August 23, Fernanda Eberstadt, “Untamed Creature”, in New York Times:

In a way or to an extent that prevents assimilation


tofore

From Middle English tofore, toforn, from Old English tōforan (“in front of”), from tō (“to”) + foran (“front, fore-part”, n.), dative case of fora (“front”). Compare Dutch tevoren (“previously”), German zuvor (“before, previously”). More at to, fore.

Farewell, Lavinia, my noble sister ; O would thou wert as thou tofore hast been!

1592, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus:


thether

There now he lives in everlasting ioy,
With many of the gods in company
Which thether haunt ,and with the winged boy,
Sporting himselse in safe felicity

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


sublethally

sublethally (comparative more sublethally, superlative most sublethally)

more sublethally (comparative)
most sublethally (superlative)

This is due to the detection of sublethally damaged cells, which are still viable but not culturable.

In a sublethal manner, or to a sublethal extent.


fugaciously

fugaciously (comparative more fugaciously, superlative most fugaciously)

more fugaciously (comparative)
most fugaciously (superlative)


all kidding aside

1983 April 25, Steve Wozniak, letter to the editor, Infoworld,
All kidding aside, I doubt we'll ever bomb Japan as long as [the Japanese] make Epson printers.

"All kidding aside, Carlysle . . ."
"Carla," I corrected him automatically.
"I'm too used to thinking of you as 'Carlysle' and male to change both at once . . . All kidding aside, it'd be better for you not to stay on here any longer than the storm."

2002, Anne McCaffrey, The Mark of Merlin:

2009 February 19, Joe Biden, speech, The Good of the Nation,
Max, just remember, when we call, I call, just say "Yes, Joe," okay? (Laughter.) All kidding aside, thanks for your great help in this, Max.

(speech act, idiomatic) Used to attempt to make a serious point in a jocular conversation.


unneth

The nursingwoman answered him and said that that woman was in throes now full three days and that it would be a hard birth unneth to bear but that now in a little it would be.

1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2008:

Obsolete spelling of uneath (“Hard, difficult, not easy”).


flat chat

We had the car going flat chat down the highway when the cops pulled us over.

If there was a radio we'd have it going flat-chat, boy.

1987, Tim Winton, That Eye, The Sky, page 110:

(Australia, idiomatic) At maximum capability, intensity, or speed.

1998, John Marsden, The Night is for Hunting, unnumbered page:
I spun around yet again and took off flat chat.

2012, Chris Hammer, The River: A Journey Through the Murray-Darling Basin, page 166:
I′m driving flat chat as I cross Green Gully, a nondescript depression in the wide flat plain of western New South Wales.


supes

supes (comparative more supes, superlative most supes)

more supes (comparative)
most supes (superlative)

Supes Awesome. Dating advice from the clown who'd put baby powder in my blow-dryer, frozen marbles in my bed, and still regularly strung plastic wrap across the doorway.

It's supes boring here.

2015, Ronel van Tonder, Compile:Quest, page 406:

It's going to be supes fun.

You were like a zombie for a minute there. It was supes scary.


warningly

warningly (comparative more warningly, superlative most warningly)

more warningly (comparative)
most warningly (superlative)

[…] Moby Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his submerged trunk, entirely hiding the wrenched hideousness of his jaw. But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water; for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch […] and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 133, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 604:

The woman put her finger to her lips, warningly.

1891, Henry Francis Keenan, chapter 13, in The Iron Game:

The outsides of old Edinburgh churches frightened her, they were of such dark stone, like presences almost the colour of the Castle rock, and were built so warningly with their upraised fingers.

1961, Muriel Spark, chapter 1, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, London: Macmillan:

In a warning manner; in such a way as to warn.


earsplittingly

earsplittingly (comparative more earsplittingly, superlative most earsplittingly)

more earsplittingly (comparative)
most earsplittingly (superlative)


semisynthetically

In a semisynthetic way; by means of semisynthesis.


centrosomally

centrosomally (comparative more centrosomally, superlative most centrosomally)

more centrosomally (comparative)
most centrosomally (superlative)


dispersively

dispersively (comparative more dispersively, superlative most dispersively)

more dispersively (comparative)
most dispersively (superlative)


unably

unably (comparative more unably, superlative most unably)

more unably (comparative)
most unably (superlative)

From Middle English un-ably, unabilly, equivalent to unable + -ly.

And those words not unably welded together from the columns of a journal which well knows its public […]

1901, Sibyl Creed, The vicar of St. Luke's:

In an unable way; without skill or ability.


transgenetically

In a transgenetic way; by means of transgenesis.


wonderly

wonderly (comparative more wonderly, superlative most wonderly)

more wonderly (comparative)
most wonderly (superlative)

From Middle English wonderly, wonderli, wonderliche, from Old English wundorlīċe, equivalent to wonder + -ly.

(archaic) Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner.

(archaic) To a wonderful degree, exceedingly.


biopolitically

biopolitically (comparative more biopolitically, superlative most biopolitically)

more biopolitically (comparative)
most biopolitically (superlative)


psychoactively

psychoactively (comparative more psychoactively, superlative most psychoactively)

more psychoactively (comparative)
most psychoactively (superlative)


obliteratively

obliteratively (comparative more obliteratively, superlative most obliteratively)

more obliteratively (comparative)
most obliteratively (superlative)


unripely

unripely (comparative more unripely, superlative most unripely)

more unripely (comparative)
most unripely (superlative)

What is our life, but our life's tragedy, / Extinguish'd in a momentary time? / And life to murder life is cruelty, / Unripely withering in a flowery prime […]

1611, Thomas Middleton, No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's:


managerially

In the Organic's case the problem is how to rejuvenate both artistically and managerially from the slow downward spiral that began when founder Stuart Gordon left for Hollywood in the mid-80s.

1994 February 4, Lewis Lazare, “Sins of No-Mission/Navy Pier's New Tent/MCA's Security Record Spoiled”, in Chicago Reader:

But he did not subscribe to the winning-is-the-only-thing school, either philosophically or managerially.

2007 March 26, Ginia Bellafante, “A Nearly Unbeatable Team and the Man Behind It”, in New York Times:

In a managerial respect; with regard to management


magmatically

Pale and medium gray bands show inferred "normal" and magmatically elevated thermal gradients, respectively.

2000 March 31, Bradley R. Hacker et al., “Hot and Dry Deep Crustal Xenoliths from Tibet”, in Science, volume 287, number 5462, →DOI, pages 2463–2466:

Diking events, which occur on time scales of years to decades in magmatically active fast- to intermediate-spreading environments, may provide the mechanisms for replenishing thermophilic biotopes with organic carbon and nitrogen.

1998 July 10, J. R. Delaney et al., “The Quantum Event of Oceanic Crustal Accretion: Impacts of Diking at Mid-Ocean Ridges”, in Science, volume 281, number 5374, →DOI, pages 222–230:

(geology) In respect of, or due to, magma


micropolitically

micropolitically (comparative more micropolitically, superlative most micropolitically)

more micropolitically (comparative)
most micropolitically (superlative)

In a micropolitical way; by means of micropolitics.


gingivally

In a gingival manner; with regard to, or by means of, the gums.


up hill and down dale

I have a great deal of sympathy with scientific doubters, and with those who test psychicism up hill and down dale and are not satisfied.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 275:

We bought a 1969 dark green VW Beetle which I immediately named "Doodle Bug," and off we went. The car did not give us a minute's trouble throughout the trip — up hill, down dale, across uncharted wastelands between super highways.

1980 December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 12:

(UK, US, Australia, idiomatic) Here and there; everywhere.


unseriously

unseriously (comparative more unseriously, superlative most unseriously)

more unseriously (comparative)
most unseriously (superlative)

In an unserious way; flippantly, frivolously.


whereuntil

O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors, sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount […]

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:


frizzily

frizzily (comparative more frizzily, superlative most frizzily)

more frizzily (comparative)
most frizzily (superlative)

Vanessa, her baby-soft halo of frizzily curling brown hair, enthroning her soft face, with its wide, cherubine features, was approaching their table tendaciously, eager to make a good impression on "Her Jo's" friends.

1980 August 2, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 15:


all else the same

As a firm's cost falls, it is willing to supply more, all else the same.

2008, Jeffrey M. Perloff, Microeconomics:


all else being equal

If I know from the diary that I used to believe P, then all else being equal, this gives me a reason now to believe P.

2001, Richard Foley, Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others:

(modal) Holding other conditions unchanged; ceteris paribus.


embryogenically

In an embryogenic way; during embryogenesis.


unoriginally

unoriginally (comparative more unoriginally, superlative most unoriginally)

more unoriginally (comparative)
most unoriginally (superlative)


atactically

atactically (comparative more atactically, superlative most atactically)

more atactically (comparative)
most atactically (superlative)


emarginately

emarginately (comparative more emarginately, superlative most emarginately)

more emarginately (comparative)
most emarginately (superlative)


arcuately

arcuately (comparative more arcuately, superlative most arcuately)

more arcuately (comparative)
most arcuately (superlative)


mesenchymally

mesenchymally (comparative more mesenchymally, superlative most mesenchymally)

more mesenchymally (comparative)
most mesenchymally (superlative)


adenoidally

adenoidally (comparative more adenoidally, superlative most adenoidally)

more adenoidally (comparative)
most adenoidally (superlative)


individualistically

individualistically (comparative more individualistically, superlative most individualistically)

more individualistically (comparative)
most individualistically (superlative)


trailside

Big groups are camped trailside.

2000, Backpacker, volume 28, number 187, page 56:


heterolytically

heterolytically (comparative more heterolytically, superlative most heterolytically)

more heterolytically (comparative)
most heterolytically (superlative)


wimpily

wimpily (comparative more wimpily, superlative most wimpily)

more wimpily (comparative)
most wimpily (superlative)


clerkishly

clerkishly (comparative more clerkishly, superlative most clerkishly)

more clerkishly (comparative)
most clerkishly (superlative)


xerically

xerically (comparative more xerically, superlative most xerically)

more xerically (comparative)
most xerically (superlative)


supernumerarily

supernumerarily (comparative more supernumerarily, superlative most supernumerarily)

more supernumerarily (comparative)
most supernumerarily (superlative)

(rare) In a supernumerary manner; excessively.


wimpishly

wimpishly (comparative more wimpishly, superlative most wimpishly)

more wimpishly (comparative)
most wimpishly (superlative)

Religion has become either wimpishly workaday, or terminally crazy, or merely businesslike—confusing spirituality with charitable donations.

1989, Julian Barnes, chapter 8, in A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, New York: Vintage, published 1990, page 242:

Tanya de Grunwald, who runs the Graduate Fog website which campaigns for interns’ rights, said: “Many managers continue to hide wimpishly behind the defence that they are offering these opportunities out of the goodness of their hearts, in order to give young people the chance to gain some experience.”

2011 April 28, Shiv Malik, “Almost one in five British businesses admit using interns as cheap labour”, in The Guardian:


wispily

wispily (comparative more wispily, superlative most wispily)

more wispily (comparative)
most wispily (superlative)

From some far seaward cisterns of the air billows of fog poured down over the city of San Francisco; rebounding like smoke from the summer-heated fronts of hills, they settled in shady hollows and caught wispily at rows of trees.

1908, Mary Hunter Austin, chapter 22, in Santa Lucia, New York: Harper, page 282:

“Yes,” said Julia, vaguely and wispily. “Yes, dear, you have.”

1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 6, in Aaron’s Rod, London: Martin Secker, page 64:

A man and his dog were going to materialize, were going to appear out of thin air—wispily at first, becoming, finally, as substantial as any man and dog alive.

1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 1, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, page 2:

He caught a last glimpse of Mitzi’s large breasts bulging out above her brassiere, wispily veiled by the negligee.

1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 196:

But the fat man remains, as does the cashier, who is wispily blond, with a bony hillbilly nose and translucent white skin.

1991, Douglas Coupland, Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 64:


ostensively

ostensively (comparative more ostensively, superlative most ostensively)

more ostensively (comparative)
most ostensively (superlative)


perseveratively

perseveratively (comparative more perseveratively, superlative most perseveratively)

more perseveratively (comparative)
most perseveratively (superlative)


circumglobally

circumglobally (comparative more circumglobally, superlative most circumglobally)

more circumglobally (comparative)
most circumglobally (superlative)


circumjacently

circumjacently (comparative more circumjacently, superlative most circumjacently)

more circumjacently (comparative)
most circumjacently (superlative)


transversally

transversally (comparative more transversally, superlative most transversally)

more transversally (comparative)
most transversally (superlative)

Moreover, art can think “transversally” with scientific functions in artistic ways, just as science can think transversally with artistic sensations in scientific ways. I would argue that such transversal thinking is the possible […]

2015, Liza Piper, Lisa Szabo-Jones, Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 95:

Urging us to think transversally across three ecological registers – mental, social and environmental – Guattari emphasises the necessity to confront our enslavement in global capitalism.

2016, Helene Frichot, Deleuze and the City, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 3:

[... not to subsi]tute one binary code for another—West–East, East–West—but to think transversally and ecosophically across paradigms. Behind the “Degrees of Racism” report is a desire to think across borders, beyond individuality and community—to[…]

2018, David R. Cole, Joff P.N. Bradley, Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:

In a way that exhibits or pertains to transversality; connecting hetergeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).


supercritically

supercritically (comparative more supercritically, superlative most supercritically)

more supercritically (comparative)
most supercritically (superlative)


frowsily

frowsily (comparative more frowsily, superlative most frowsily)

more frowsily (comparative)
most frowsily (superlative)


fewly

fewly (comparative more fewly, superlative most fewly)

more fewly (comparative)
most fewly (superlative)

"Yes," said Bruno; "but they went so slowly and so fewly, I didn't care to count them."

1893, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Matilda Jane”, in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 78:

(rare, nonstandard, chiefly non-native speakers' English) In small numbers.


gulpingly

gulpingly (comparative more gulpingly, superlative most gulpingly)

more gulpingly (comparative)
most gulpingly (superlative)


unemployably

unemployably (comparative more unemployably, superlative most unemployably)

more unemployably (comparative)
most unemployably (superlative)


anarchistically

anarchistically (comparative more anarchistically, superlative most anarchistically)

more anarchistically (comparative)
most anarchistically (superlative)


captivatingly

captivatingly (comparative more captivatingly, superlative most captivatingly)

more captivatingly (comparative)
most captivatingly (superlative)

With great clarity, she steadily and captivatingly unwinds the complicated threads of her narrative, explicating formidable scholarship while keeping the twins at the fore.

2009 September 6, Caroline Alexander, “Two of a Kind”, in New York Times:


curvingly

curvingly (comparative more curvingly, superlative most curvingly)

more curvingly (comparative)
most curvingly (superlative)

The knife (anciently, at least, of bamboo) is drawn from a point just posterior to the lateral fin nearly to the tail, then curvingly around to the belly.

1929, Edward Winslow Gifford, Tongan society:


undyingly

undyingly (comparative more undyingly, superlative most undyingly)

more undyingly (comparative)
most undyingly (superlative)

In an undying way; eternally, immortally.


valuelessly

valuelessly (comparative more valuelessly, superlative most valuelessly)

more valuelessly (comparative)
most valuelessly (superlative)


clunkily

clunkily (comparative more clunkily, superlative most clunkily)

more clunkily (comparative)
most clunkily (superlative)

[…] and the hanging leaves look clunkily irrelevant, like Christmas decorations.

1988, Arts Magazine, volume 63, numbers 1-7, page 106:


noirishly

noirishly (comparative more noirishly, superlative most noirishly)

more noirishly (comparative)
most noirishly (superlative)


chirpily

chirpily (comparative more chirpily, superlative most chirpily)

more chirpily (comparative)
most chirpily (superlative)

From the Malay wayang came ‘Rukun Islam’, sung chirpily by a hoarse female voice.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 108:

Her father's sad passing makes such memories deeply poignant, but Meadows relays them too chirpily for me to embarrass myself by getting moist-eyed.

2010 July 16, Brian Viner, “Jenny Meadows: ‘I am happy for Semenya but not all the girls agree’”, in The Independent:


overthwart

overthwart (comparative more overthwart, superlative most overthwart)

more overthwart (comparative)
most overthwart (superlative)

/əʊvəˈθwɔːt/

From Middle English overthwart, overthwert, overtwert, overquert, overwhart, equivalent to over- + thwart. Compare Dutch overdwaars (“across”), Danish overtvært (“across”).

For when a Gyant’s slain in fight,
And mow’d orethwart, or cleft downright,
It is a heavy case, no doubt,
A man should have his Brains beat out,
Because he’s tall, and has large Bones;

1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London: Canto 2, page 36:

[...] they are ioyned by two and two together, and every couple sustaineth a third stone lying overthwart, gatewise, which is fastened by the meanes of tenons that enter into mortaises of those stones not closed with any cement.

1876, William Long, Esq., Stonehenge and its Barrows. From the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, etc. [With maps and wood-engravings.], →OCLC, page 25:


ungrievingly

In an ungrieving way; grieflessly, without grief.


touchably

touchably (comparative more touchably, superlative most touchably)

more touchably (comparative)
most touchably (superlative)


baronially

baronially (comparative more baronially, superlative most baronially)

more baronially (comparative)
most baronially (superlative)


indebtedly

indebtedly (comparative more indebtedly, superlative most indebtedly)

more indebtedly (comparative)
most indebtedly (superlative)


supernally

supernally (comparative more supernally, superlative most supernally)

more supernally (comparative)
most supernally (superlative)


superiorly

superiorly (comparative more superiorly, superlative most superiorly)

more superiorly (comparative)
most superiorly (superlative)

(anatomy, medicine) above; in a superior position.

"Then how did you get the book?" Betsy asked.
"Quite simple," Wicky said superiorly.

1936, Anne Pence Davis, Mimi's House Party, page 79:


feet first

(of the movement or transportation of a person or animal) With the feet preceding the rest of the body.

"If that door opens and any one of you cusses lets on there's anything unusual, right here and then I sure start plugging. They ain't a soul'll get out the room except feet first."

1910, Jack London, chapter 4, in Burning Daylight:

"‘Anybody resigns from us resigns feet first, understand?’ he tells me. So I didn't resign."

1943 October 18, “How to Be a Racketeer”, in Time:

"They'll probably have to take me out of here feet first," says Ms. Steinem, punctuating the prediction with a growl of laughter (mortality has been in the back of her mind since breast cancer treatment a dozen years ago. . .).

2001 May 23, Robin Finn, “Public Lives”, in New York Times, retrieved 2009-09-09:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) In the manner of a deceased person (i.e., dead).


unostentatiously

unostentatiously (comparative more unostentatiously, superlative most unostentatiously)

more unostentatiously (comparative)
most unostentatiously (superlative)

The common gay does well being less concerned with joining the Great Gay Bandwagon […] and more concerned with living unostentatiously, honestly, truthfully, and quietly.

1980 December 13, Ray Olson, “Short Sighted And Silly”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 4:


theosophically

theosophically (comparative more theosophically, superlative most theosophically)

more theosophically (comparative)
most theosophically (superlative)

From theosophic + -ally or theosophical + -ly.


punkily

punkily (comparative more punkily, superlative most punkily)

more punkily (comparative)
most punkily (superlative)

Her hair was red, cut punkily short. Her legs went approximately up to her chin.

Square Business, one of two new group pieces, had four punkily dressed women moving around the edges of a performing area...

1991, Marcia B Siegel, The tail of the dragon: new dance, 1976-1982:


befuddlingly

befuddlingly (comparative more befuddlingly, superlative most befuddlingly)

more befuddlingly (comparative)
most befuddlingly (superlative)

They open for the befuddlingly popular, triumphantly average Toad the Wet Sprocket.

1994 July 22, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:


barebacked

Just as our meal was ready, our roustabout came into camp, riding one of the horses barebacked, with only a halter and leading the other two.

1912, J. A. Graves, Out of Doors--California and Oregon:

Roote condones, even encourages sex "in the interest of science," but he warns, "Never ride barebacked and always send in a report."

1993 February 26, Josefa Smith, “The Hothouse”, in Chicago Reader:


beamingly

beamingly (comparative more beamingly, superlative most beamingly)

more beamingly (comparative)
most beamingly (superlative)

“Some pitchin’, Loo-tenant,” he panted beamingly, stepping back into shelter.

1916, Boyd Cable, “A Benevolent Neutral”, in Action Front:

[…] Tony […] scowled until he saw who was with Miriam, then was beamingly proud to show off his workshop […]

1961, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 35, in Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 377:


arbitrariously

arbitrariously (comparative more arbitrariously, superlative most arbitrariously)

more arbitrariously (comparative)
most arbitrariously (superlative)


in one's own time

When they seem to have had enough time to work at the subconscious level, invite them back: "Now, in your own time, come back to the here and now[…]"

2006, Jo Biggs with Adam Vile, Ad and Jo's Guide to Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, →ISBN, page 53:

Taking as much time as one requires; when one is ready.


nonracially

In a nonracial manner; without regard to race.


selfward

For once, the male gaze turned emphatically selfward.

2009 June 19, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:


in memorium

From memoriam, with influence from the common Latin ending -ium.


guilefully

guilefully (comparative more guilefully, superlative most guilefully)

more guilefully (comparative)
most guilefully (superlative)

From Middle English gilefuli, gylfully, gilfulliche, gylefulliche, equivalent to guileful + -ly.

Sith which she hath me ever since abhord, / And to my foe hath guilefully consented: / Ay me, that ever guyle in wemen was invented!

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


cultishly

cultishly (comparative more cultishly, superlative most cultishly)

more cultishly (comparative)
most cultishly (superlative)

The Seeds, formed in 1965, were a short-lived but cultishly memorable band that melded primitive rock rhythms with the free-love message of the flower power generation.

2009 June 27, Bruce Weber, “Sky Saxon, Lead Singer for the Seeds, Dies at 71”, in New York Times:

22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club Cabin Boyhttp://www.avclub.com/articles/cabin-boy,71269/
On this Island Of Misfit Toys, you’ll find 1994’s Cabin Boy, a Tim Burton-produced collaboration between writer-director Adam Resnick and Chris Elliott, creators of the cultishly beloved TV show Get A Life.


sizzlingly

sizzlingly (comparative more sizzlingly, superlative most sizzlingly)

more sizzlingly (comparative)
most sizzlingly (superlative)

He dumped a new batch of burgers sizzlingly onto the barbecue.


growlingly

growlingly (comparative more growlingly, superlative most growlingly)

more growlingly (comparative)
most growlingly (superlative)

Under the command of Dr. Lonnie Smith, the Hammond B-3 organ can be subtly atmospheric or growlingly ecstatic.

2009 July 3, Nate Chinen, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times:


scoffingly

scoffingly (comparative more scoffingly, superlative most scoffingly)

more scoffingly (comparative)
most scoffingly (superlative)


contradictorily

contradictorily (comparative more contradictorily, superlative most contradictorily)

more contradictorily (comparative)
most contradictorily (superlative)

She said not to come over, but then she contradictorily demanded I come get her.


unambivalently

unambivalently (comparative more unambivalently, superlative most unambivalently)

more unambivalently (comparative)
most unambivalently (superlative)

someone unambivalently enjoying his celebrity

2009 July 8, Ginia Bellafante, “Our Current Global Economic Crisis: The Prequel”, in New York Times:


posttranscriptionally

(genetics) Subsequent to the transcription of RNA.


transpositionally

transpositionally (comparative more transpositionally, superlative most transpositionally)

more transpositionally (comparative)
most transpositionally (superlative)


untiredly

untiredly (comparative more untiredly, superlative most untiredly)

more untiredly (comparative)
most untiredly (superlative)


biconically

biconically (comparative more biconically, superlative most biconically)

more biconically (comparative)
most biconically (superlative)


buffoonishly

buffoonishly (comparative more buffoonishly, superlative most buffoonishly)

more buffoonishly (comparative)
most buffoonishly (superlative)


arousingly

arousingly (comparative more arousingly, superlative most arousingly)

more arousingly (comparative)
most arousingly (superlative)


druggily

druggily (comparative more druggily, superlative most druggily)

more druggily (comparative)
most druggily (superlative)


pickily

pickily (comparative more pickily, superlative most pickily)

more pickily (comparative)
most pickily (superlative)


aggrievedly

aggrievedly (comparative more aggrievedly, superlative most aggrievedly)

more aggrievedly (comparative)
most aggrievedly (superlative)

"And what's the matter this time?" he demanded aggrievedly.

1916, Clair W. Hayes, The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign:

"Lady, you're carrying off the bouquet," he said, aggrievedly.

1920, Willa Cather, Youth and the Bright Medusa:

The big homecoming game, however, was canceled when the, uh, president got shot, as was the date itself when I didn't behave aggrievedly enough.

1999 July 2, Richard Meltzer, “Vinyl Reckoning”, in Chicago Reader:

In the manner of someone who is aggrieved


worse comes to worse

worst comes to worst
worst comes to worst#English

Alternative form of worst comes to worst


arthritically

arthritically (comparative more arthritically, superlative most arthritically)

more arthritically (comparative)
most arthritically (superlative)

As Lehman, Breuler is sluggish, coarse, and lumpy, huffing and puffing his way arthritically about the stage like some 1930s crime-movie heavy.

1989 October 20, Albert Williams, “The Butter and Egg Man”, in Chicago Reader:

But as time went by the inert human creature became so wholly opprobrious to the gecko, who valued a good hunt, that at last, as the small ceiling fan continued to turn arthritically, churning an unnoticeable, fetid draft of warm air in the direction of the man and the beast […].

2008, Steven Sills, An Apostate: Nawin of Thais:

In an arthritic fashion: in a way that is characteristic of a person with arthritis


residually

residually (comparative more residually, superlative most residually)

more residually (comparative)
most residually (superlative)


pseudoelastically

pseudoelastically (comparative more pseudoelastically, superlative most pseudoelastically)

more pseudoelastically (comparative)
most pseudoelastically (superlative)


aleatorily

aleatorily (comparative more aleatorily, superlative most aleatorily)

more aleatorily (comparative)
most aleatorily (superlative)


anaphorically

anaphorically (comparative more anaphorically, superlative most anaphorically)

more anaphorically (comparative)
most anaphorically (superlative)

Coordinate term: cataphorically


antiquely

antiquely (comparative more antiquely, superlative most antiquely)

more antiquely (comparative)
most antiquely (superlative)


superelastically

superelastically (comparative more superelastically, superlative most superelastically)

more superelastically (comparative)
most superelastically (superlative)


memberwise

If a copy constructor is not defined, a memberwise copy is performed. This means that a copy operation is applied to each data member in turn.

1997, Adrian P Robson, The programmer's guide to C++:

(computing, programming) In terms of members (items associated with class instances).


worst comes to worst

Originally in the form "if the worst come to the worst" with the subjunctive "if it come to" in the sense of "if the worst possible outcome should become the worst possible reality". Often used even today with the same two definite articles, and this is the only form recorded for British English in some dictionaries.

“Worst comes to worst, we'll make it to Cleveland and we can set down there and wait things out.” Gordon Rand nearly sneered, “Worst comes to worst? We'll crash and die, isn't that closer to the worst end of the possibility spectrum?

2010, Cherie Priest, Dreadnought: A Novel of the Clockwork Century:

You aren't doing anything anyway. Worst comes to worst you can give her some money and send her on her way.

Worst comes to worst ...” Eddie finished it. “Worst comes to worst, we try Dr. One's patented homemade miracle vaccine. Stops hair loss. Stops gout. Builds muscles. Kills flus.”

Worst comes to worst, Curtis says I can use his room.

2018, Clare London, With A Kick Collection 2:

You said a couple of them are predators? Well, worst comes to worst, they can shift and eat.

2017, Crista Crown, Harper B. Cole, The Outcast Chronicles Bundle:

worst-case scenario
worst-case scenario#Noun

(idiomatic) If a possible worst-case scenario actually occurs.

considered incorrect by some: worse comes to worse


superabundantly

superabundantly (comparative more superabundantly, superlative most superabundantly)

more superabundantly (comparative)
most superabundantly (superlative)


up so down

From Middle English up-so-doun, upsedowne, upsadowne (“upside down”); equivalent to up + so + down, literally “up as down”.


self-effacingly

self-effacingly (comparative more self-effacingly, superlative most self-effacingly)

more self-effacingly (comparative)
most self-effacingly (superlative)

John is difficult to distinguish sometimes because he carries himself so self-effacingly.

The quality of carrying oneself in a humble manner.


psychoanalytically

psychoanalytically (comparative more psychoanalytically, superlative most psychoanalytically)

more psychoanalytically (comparative)
most psychoanalytically (superlative)

In terms of, or by means of, psychoanalysis.


slouchily

slouchily (comparative more slouchily, superlative most slouchily)

more slouchily (comparative)
most slouchily (superlative)


autumnally

autumnally (comparative more autumnally, superlative most autumnally)

more autumnally (comparative)
most autumnally (superlative)


unprincipledly

unprincipledly (comparative more unprincipledly, superlative most unprincipledly)

more unprincipledly (comparative)
most unprincipledly (superlative)


unvigorously

unvigorously (comparative more unvigorously, superlative most unvigorously)

more unvigorously (comparative)
most unvigorously (superlative)


unflamboyantly

unflamboyantly (comparative more unflamboyantly, superlative most unflamboyantly)

more unflamboyantly (comparative)
most unflamboyantly (superlative)


unrigorously

unrigorously (comparative more unrigorously, superlative most unrigorously)

more unrigorously (comparative)
most unrigorously (superlative)


uncrossably

uncrossably (comparative more uncrossably, superlative most uncrossably)

more uncrossably (comparative)
most uncrossably (superlative)


fictively

fictively (comparative more fictively, superlative most fictively)

more fictively (comparative)
most fictively (superlative)


hiply

hiply (comparative more hiply, superlative most hiply)

more hiply (comparative)
most hiply (superlative)

...works that use these postmodern devices have little or no political content or motivation — they are merely striking a hiply ironic, postmodern pose.

2008, Kerry Soper, Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire:


lacklusterly

lacklusterly (comparative more lacklusterly, superlative most lacklusterly)

more lacklusterly (comparative)
most lacklusterly (superlative)


anyhoo

(humorous, informal or dialectal) anyhow


mouldily

mouldily (comparative more mouldily, superlative most mouldily)

more mouldily (comparative)
most mouldily (superlative)


moldily

moldily (comparative more moldily, superlative most moldily)

more moldily (comparative)
most moldily (superlative)


bemusingly

bemusingly (comparative more bemusingly, superlative most bemusingly)

more bemusingly (comparative)
most bemusingly (superlative)


pre-emptively

pre-emptively (comparative more pre-emptively, superlative most pre-emptively)

more pre-emptively (comparative)
most pre-emptively (superlative)

By acting pre-emptively, Network Rail was able to remove critical equipment from the ground, preventing some of the damage that could have been experienced.

2022 March 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Three named storms in a week cause havoc on the railways”, in RAIL, number 952, page 11:


smartish

smartish (comparative more smartish, superlative most smartish)

more smartish (comparative)
most smartish (superlative)

The work's to be done smartish, for inside the hour we'll have Mr Drew's visitors on our necks.


agewise

They mix the classes up agewise so the older children lead the younger ones.

1999 February 26, Ben Joravsky, “Take Our Children, Please”, in Chicago Reader:

On the other hand, agewise, Deb admits to being 32, while Liz, with her latent maternal reflections, sounds like she is pushing 35--advantage Pickett.

2005 October 21, Ed Margolis, “Who's Debra Pickett?”, in Chicago Reader:


achronologically

Moving achronologically through the last decades of the 20th century, the pieces are snapshots of the life of a single protagonist and the people and events in his orbit.

2004 January 16, Ulysses Smith, “In Print: Eugene Wildman has stories to tell”, in Chicago Reader:

Without chronological order; in an achronological manner


cellularly

cellularly derived spliceosomal snRNAs

(chiefly biology) In terms of, or by means of, biological cells.

The kid had a palmtop stock-quoter, a wire in his ear, and the schizophrenic eyes of the cellularly occupied.

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

In terms of, or by means of, a cellular telecommunication network.


aht

aht (comparative more aht, superlative most aht)

more aht (comparative)
most aht (superlative)

'Git aht!' said Liza, pushing him away, not too gently.

1897, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published [1921], →OCLC:

"Kick aht at 'em!" though, indeed, she went now with Christian meekness, resenting only the thrusting policemen's hands.

1909, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Ann Veronica, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin:

"Look aht, Percy," enjoined a hollow but reassuring voice, "'ere comes another!"

1916 February 23, “Underground Game”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 150:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


aways

Seein' a platter of ice cream down the table aways, I got up onto my feet, and havin' a good long arm, reached for it.

1870 October 8, Various, Punchinello Vol. 2 No. 28:

"And just down the hill aways another big man is buried.

1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14:


swingeingly

swingeingly (comparative more swingeingly, superlative most swingeingly)

more swingeingly (comparative)
most swingeingly (superlative)


nearhand

From Middle English nerehand, nerhond, nerehande, equivalent to near + hand.


isostatically

isostatically (comparative more isostatically, superlative most isostatically)

more isostatically (comparative)
most isostatically (superlative)


viscously

viscously (comparative more viscously, superlative most viscously)

more viscously (comparative)
most viscously (superlative)


bannerlike

bannerlike (comparative more bannerlike, superlative most bannerlike)

more bannerlike (comparative)
most bannerlike (superlative)

He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.

1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter I, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 1:


coruscatingly

coruscatingly (comparative more coruscatingly, superlative most coruscatingly)

more coruscatingly (comparative)
most coruscatingly (superlative)


scribally

The medial consonant u is scribally equivalent to v in this passage.

In a scribal manner; in terms of the way something is written.


complementarily

complementarily (comparative more complementarily, superlative most complementarily)

more complementarily (comparative)
most complementarily (superlative)


preparedly

preparedly (comparative more preparedly, superlative most preparedly)

more preparedly (comparative)
most preparedly (superlative)


lusterlessly

lusterlessly (comparative more lusterlessly, superlative most lusterlessly)

more lusterlessly (comparative)
most lusterlessly (superlative)


lustrelessly

lustrelessly (comparative more lustrelessly, superlative most lustrelessly)

more lustrelessly (comparative)
most lustrelessly (superlative)


unreadily

unreadily (comparative more unreadily, superlative most unreadily)

more unreadily (comparative)
most unreadily (superlative)

From Middle English unredily; equivalent to unready + -ly.

Other patrons seized all the predial tithes, and gave an example of impropriations to the religious corporations in their vicinity that was not unreadily followed.

1824, John Mirehouse, A Practical Treatise on the Law of Advowsons, page 83:


peppily

peppily (comparative more peppily, superlative most peppily)

more peppily (comparative)
most peppily (superlative)

“I don’t want to vote for any of you, to be honest!” scolded a 61-year-old retired accountant when Mr. Herbert appeared peppily at her front door, holding a Tory leaflet and wearing a jaunty turquoise Tory ribbon.

2009 June 4, Sarah Lyall, “British Minister Quits, Dealing New Blow to Brown”, in New York Times:


rousingly

rousingly (comparative more rousingly, superlative most rousingly)

more rousingly (comparative)
most rousingly (superlative)

It’s to the credit of this remarkable writer that those absences seem unimportant beside what is so rousingly present.

2009 July 12, David Orr, “Too Close to Touch”, in New York Times: