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Definition: Blankly |
BlanklyAdverb1. In a blank manner; "she stared at him blankly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blankly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Synonym: BlanklySynonym: without expression (adv). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Staring blankly ahead (A Thousand Miles; performing artist: Vanessa Carlton) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Blankly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.60% of the time. "Blankly" is used about 252 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.6% | 251 | 18,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 252 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blankly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blankly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me vështrim të zbrazët. (various references) | |
Arabic | بصراحة (barely, downright, flat, freely, honestly, on the level, outright, overtly, plain, plainly, plump, point blank, unreservedly), بانشداه على نحو خالي من التعبير. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безучастно (indifferently). (various references) | |
Chinese | 愣 (blank, distracted, stupefied, to look distracted, to stare blankly). (various references) | |
Czech | bezvýraznì, všestrannì (broadwise, universally), kategoricky (categorically). (various references) | |
French | avec regard sans expression, avec des yeux vides. (various references) | |
German | verständnislos (blank, unappreciative, uncomprehending, uncomprehendingly, unsympathetic), verdutzt (baffled, bewildered, blank, disconcerts, nonplused, perplexed, puzzled, taken aback), verblüfft (amazes, astounds, bewildered, blank, dumbfounds, flabbergasts, nonplused, perplexed, perplexedly, staggered, stupefies), leer (bare, blank, blanks, devoid, empty, free, frothily, frothy, hollow, idle, no-op, specious, unseeing, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vacuously, vain, vapid, void), ausdruckslos (blank, emotionless, expressionless, inexpressive, inexpressively, nonexpressive, unexpressive, unimpressive, vacuous). (various references) | |
Greek | κατηγορηματικώσ, με ανέκφραστο ύφοσ, άδεια (allowance, furlough, leave, licence, licencea, license, permission, permit), ανέκφραστα (inexpressibly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kifejezéstelenül (expressionlessly), üresen (emptily, empty, expressionlessly, inanely, light, vacantly). (various references) | |
Italian | senza espressione, decisamente (clearly, decidedly, definitely, resolutely). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ほら貝 (abstractedly, baby, being stupefied, by ones and twos, clip joint, conch, crunch, dazedly, dimly, doing nothing, doll, dreamily, drip drip, dry and crumbling, faintly, flushingly, gradually, hazily, here and there, idling away time, in flames, indistinctly, it's getting late, little by little, munch, one after another, pimples, rip-off, slang for cunt, slightly, splash, spots, subdued, to be moved to tears, to be touched by, to become blurred, to become dim, to become sentimental, to complain, to grumble, to rip someone off, trumpet shell, unfair overcharging, vaguely, we must be getting off, whispering, with a splash). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼうっと (abstractedly, being stupefied, dazedly, dimly, doing nothing, dreamily, faintly, flushingly, hazily, in flames, indistinctly, vaguely). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anklyblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem expressão (blank, deadpan, vacuous), de modo terminante. (various references) | |
Romanian | pierdut (absent minded, far away, forfeit, gone, lost, missing, stray, vague, wasted), inexpresiv (expressionless, meaningless, vacant, wooden), fãrã interes, fãrã expresie, cu indiferenţã. (various references) | |
Russian | отсутствующим взглядом, безучастно (vacantly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ravnodušno (indifferently), otvoreno (above board, bluntly, openly, overtly, plainly, point blank, roundly, unreservedly), krajnje (extremely, sorely, supremely). (various references) | |
Spanish | inexpresivamente, con la mirada vacía, completamente (all, all out, altogether, clearly, completely, consummately, dead, downright, entirely, fairly, flat, full, fully, holus-bolus, Plumb, properly, quite, right, sheer, thoroughly, through, through and through, up to the hilt), categóricamente (categorically, definitely, flatly, plump, point blank, positively). (various references) | |
Swedish | uttryckslöst. (various references) | |
Turkish | boş boş (idly, vacantly), kesinlikle (absolutely, assuredly, by no means, certainly, decidedly, declaredly, definitely, emphatically, exactly, expressly, flatly, nohow, not by a fraction, of a surety, precisely, really, roundly, strictly, sure), ifadesizce, şaşkın şaşkın (bewilderedly, dazedly, like a dying duck). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | байдуже (all one, all the same, aloof, cold-bloodedly, indifferently, vacantly). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thẳng thừng (downright, flat, flatly, plump), ngây ra (stupid), không có thần thẳng, dứt khoát (clear-cut, decisive, distinct, final, flatly, outright, specific, square, squarely). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Blankly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Banklin, bankly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blankly" (pronounced bla"ngklē) |
| 5 | -a" ng k l ē | frankly. |
| 3 | -k l ē | academically, acoustically, aerobically, aerodynamically, aesthetically, alchemically, algebraically, alphabetically, analytically, anatomically, angelically, apologetically, artistically, astronomically, athletically, authentically, automatically, basically, biologically, biweekly, briskly, brusquely, categorically, characteristically, chemically, chronologically, classically, cosmetically, darkly, democratically, demographically, diplomatically, dogmatically, domestically, dramatically, drastically, ecologically, economically, ecstatically, emphatically, energetically, enthusiastically, erratically, ethnically, euphemistically, fantastically, forensically, generically, genetically, geometrically, geopolitically, graphically, grotesquely, heroically, hypothetically, hysterically, ideologically, idiotically, ironically, likely, linguistically, logically, logistically, lyrically, mechanically, medically, meekly, metaphorically, microscopically, musically, newsweekly, numerically, obliquely, optically, organically, paradoxically, pathologically, phonetically, physiologically, poetically, practically, prickly, prolifically, psychologically, publically, publicly, quickly, radically, realistically, rhetorically, rhythmically, sarcastically, sickly, sleekly, slickly, sparkly, specifically, sporadically, starkly, stoically, strategically, stylistically, symmetrically, synthetically, systematically, systemically, terrifically, thematically, theologically, thickly, tragically, typically, uncharacteristically, undiplomatically, uniquely, unlikely, unrealistically, vertically, volcanically, weakly, weekly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-k-l-l-n-y" | |
-1 letter: lankly. | |
-2 letters: alkyl, balky, bally, blank, lanky. | |
-3 letters: ably, alky, ally, balk, ball, bank, laky, lank, yank. | |
-4 letters: aby, alb, all, any, bal, ban, bay, kab, kay, lab, lay, nab, nay, yak. | |
-5 letters: ab, al, an, ay, ba, by, ka, la, na, ya. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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