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Definition: Basely |
BaselyAdverb1. In a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "basely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonyms: BaselySynonyms: meanly (adv), scurvily (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Basely |
| English words defined with "basely": Degenerously. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "basely": Calf-skin ♦ Right Foot. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "basely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pandershmërisht (dishonestly, dishonorably, dishonourably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | على نحو مخز, بحقارة (insignificantly, mean, meanly), بغير شرف, بدناءة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подло (dirtily, foully, low, meanly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 基本地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nízce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bassement, vilement, laidement, lâchement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | niedrig (base, blackly, humble, low, lowly, low-slung, mean, menial, menially, neap, sordid, squat, vile), niederträchtig (base, blackguardly, caddish, despicable, infamous, malicious, mean, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, vile, villainous, wicked), gemein (abject, abominable, base, beastly, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, rascally, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | aljasan (blackguardly, dirtily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 천하. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aselybay de modo vil. (various references) murdar (base, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), meschin (base, base-spirited, costive, hen-hearted, illiberal, little, low down, mean, mercantile, nasty, paltrily, paltry, peddling, pettily, petty, shabby, small, sneaky, sordid, stingy, trivial). (various references) низко (dirtily, low). (various references) bajamente. (various references) gemenligt. (various references) неблагородно, низько (low), безчесно, підло (dirtily, meanly, rascally, under board). (various references) quỵ luỵ (knee, menial, subservient, supply), hèn hạ (abject, base, blithering, despicable, dirtily, dirty, dishonourable, meanly, picayune, poor, scabbily, scurvy, shabby, vile), đê tiện; khúm núm (base). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Basely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Absey, baael, Babeny, bacly, Bascelt, Baseley, basey, Bashelaya, Bashley, basili, basilly, Basohli, bassary, bassel, Bately, bazel, Bazell, Beesly, Besley, Bezley, Bimsley, bisell, bisily, boswelly, Casely, dbaselv, Hasely, Qasemlu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "basely" (pronounced 'Base"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly, Cavalierly, Cavally, Chastely, Cheaply, Chely, Chiefly, Choicely, Christly, Churchly, Circumspectly, Clearly, Closely, Coarsely, Coldly, Coly, Compactly, Completely, Comptly, Concisely, Concretely, Condignly, Confestly, Confusely, Conjointly, Conjunctly, Contently, Correctly, Corruptly, Costly, Coxcombly, Coyly, Crisply, Crossly, Crudely, Curtly, Darkly, Dearly, Debonairly, Deeply, Defly, Deftly, Dejectly, Demissly, Demurely, Densely, Dernly, Devoutly, Diffusely, Dilly, Dimly, Directly, Direly, Discretely, Disjointly, Disruly, Dissertly, Distinctly, Divinely, Doily, Dooly, Doyly, Dreadly, Drily, Drumly, Dryly, Dully, Duly, Dumbly, Eighthly, Entirely, Erectly, Exactly, Expertly, Expressly, Extremely, Faintly, Fairly, Falsely, Fastly, Fatly, Featly, Ferly, Fiendly, fifthly, filly, finely, firmly, firstly, fitly, flatly, fleetly, Flockly, FOLLY, fondly, Fonly, forlornly, foully, fourthly, Foxly, frailly, frankly, freely, freshly, fully, gaily, gainly, gamely, Gauntly, gayly, gelly, genteelly, Gladly, Glibly, Globosely, Glossly, Glumly, Gradely, grandly, gravely, greatly, greenly, Grilly, grisly, grossly, grotesquely, Groundly, Grumbly, Haily, haply, hardly, harshly, Heathenishly, highly, hoarsely, holy, Horsly, hotly, Hurly, immaturely, immensely, Importunely, Impurely, Incisely, incompletely, incorrectly, Incorruptly, Indignly, indirectly, indistinctly, ineptly, Inertly, inexactly, Infirmly, Injelly, inopportunely, insanely, insecurely, insincerely, intensely, intently, inversely, jointly, justly, keenly, Lagly, Laidly, lamely, Lancely, Lankly, largely, lastly, lately, laxly, Leanly, Lifely, lightly, Lithely, lonely, Longly, loosely, loudly, madly, Malignly, maturely, meekly, Meetly, merely, Metely, mildly, Misly, Mixtly, Moly, Monkly, morosely, mostly, Mutely, Namely, Naughtly, Nearly, Neatly, Needsly, Newly, Nicely, Nighly, Ninthly, Obliquely, Obscurely, Obtusely, Obversely, Occultly, Oddly, Onely, Ornately, Overcostly, Overhighly, Overstraitly, Overthwartly, Palely, Partly, Patly, Percely, Perplexly, Pertly, Perversely, Piecely, Pily, Plainly, Platly, Plumply, Politely, Polly, Pomely, Portly, Prepensely, Pressly, Prevalently, Prickly, Priestly, Primely, Primly, Profanely, Profoundly, Profusely, Prolixly, Promptly, Pronely, Proudly, Purely, Quaintly, Queenly, Queerly, Quickly, Quitly, Rankly, rarely, rashly, Rawly, Rearly, Reclusely, redly, Reformly, Remissly, reversely, richly, rightly, Rily, Rimosely, ripely, robustly, roughly, roundly, sadly, safely, sagely, saintly, Saltly, Saufly, Savely, Scantly, Scasely, Scathly, Scragly, securely, Sely, semimonthly, semiweekly, serenely, Sexly, Shackly, shapely, sharply, Sheenly, Sheerly, shortly, shyly, sightly, silly, sincerely, sixthly, slackly, sleekly, Sleightly, slightly, Slily, slimly, slowly, slyly, Smally, smartly, Smickly, smoothly, smugly, snugly, softly, solely, Soonly, Soothly, sorely, soundly, sourly, Southly, sparely, sparsely, sprightly, Spruntly, squarely, Squirely, Stagely, staidly, Stalely, stanchly, Starchly, starkly, Statuesquely, Stayedly, steeply, sternly, stiffly, stoutly, Straitly, strangely, strictly, strongly, sublimely, Submissly, Subobscurely, supremely, surely, surly, Suspensely, sweetly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: belays. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-s-y" | |
-1 letter: ables, abyes, bales, belay, blase, lyase, sable. | |
-2 letters: able, ably, abye, abys, albs, ales, ayes, bale, bals, base, bays, bels, beys, blae, byes, easy, eyas, labs, lase, lays, leas, leys, lyes, lyse, sabe, sale, seal, slab, slay, yeas. | |
-3 letters: abs, aby, alb, ale, als, aye, ays, bal, bas, bay, bel, bey, bye, bys, els, lab, las, lay, lea, ley, lye, sab, sae, sal, say, sea, sel, sly, yea, yes. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, al, as, ay, ba, be, by, el, es, la, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-s-y" | |
+1 letter: baileys, barleys, beastly, byelaws, sayable, useably. | |
+2 letters: abasedly, absently, assembly, baloneys, beltways, biasedly, bilayers, blarneys, bluejays, eyeballs, feasibly, kielbasy, payables, saleably, sizeably, slabbery, swayable, syllable. | |
+3 letters: abusively, beamishly, bearishly, bestially, betrayals, biacetyls, blasphemy, butylates, cableways, cymbalers, desirably, estimably, excusably, lazybones, mealybugs, miserably, semblably, stylobate, superably, syllabled, syllables, tabooleys, unsayable. | |
+4 letters: abrasively, absolutely, abstrusely, accessibly, bellyaches, bellybands, bestiality, bisexually, despicably, detestably, disyllable, hyperbolas, jellybeans, measurably, metastably, molybdates, myeloblast, obeisantly, observably, presumably, reasonably, reassembly, seasonably, sewability, stylobates, subacutely, sufferably, syllabuses, twayblades. | |
+5 letters: abstinently, assemblyman, assemblymen, ballplayers, barleycorns, basipetally, beauteously, bellyachers, bisexuality, blamelessly, brainlessly, bricklayers, carboxylase, chalybeates, disassembly, displayable, dissyllable, disyllables, employables, erasability, feasibility, inescapably, inestimably, inexcusably, inseparably, insuperably, irrecusably, lumberyards, myeloblasts, observantly, obstinately, pleasurably, polysorbate, presentably, recyclables, respectably, reusability, salmonberry, serviceably, subaerially, subassembly, subdermally, subjacently, sublethally, subliteracy, subliterary, syllabaries, syllabicate, syllabified, syllabifies, testability, treasonably, trisyllable, unabashedly, undesirably, unspeakably, volleyballs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 73 65 6C 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- ... . .-.. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110011 01100101 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a s e l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0073 0065 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366785717891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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