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DESULTORILY

Definition: DESULTORILY

DESULTORILY

Adverb

1. In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DESULTORILY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)

 

Usage Frequency: DESULTORILY

"DESULTORILY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DESULTORILY" is used about 17 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%1785,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DESULTORILY

Language Translations for "DESULTORILY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

incohérent. (various references)

   

German

  

unzusammenhängend (discontinuously, disjointed, incoherent). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rendszertelenül (haphazard, inordinately), kapkodva (hugger-mugger, precipitately), ötletszerűen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esultorilyday.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

inconexe (discontinuously, incoherent). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DESULTORILY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-l-o-r-s-t-u-y"

-2 letters: desultory, lordliest, loudliest, outyields, soldierly, tediously.

-3 letters: delusory, diluters, dilutors, drollest, duellist, elytroid, elytrous, illusory, loudlier, oldstyle, outliers, outrides, outsider, outyells, outyield, rouilles, sedulity, soldiery, solitude, stolider, stolidly, strolled, studlier, sturdily, sultrily, toluides, trolleys, trollied, trollies, urostyle.

-4 letters: destroy, detours, diluter, dilutes, dilutor, dollies, dourest, doylies, drylots, duelist, duellos, dullest, dustier, dustily, editors.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-l-o-r-s-t-u-y"
 

+2 letters: deleteriously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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