Leary

Definition: Leary

Leary

Noun

1. United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996).

Date "Leary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Synonyms: Leary

Synonyms: Tim Leary (n), Timothy Francis Leary (n), Timothy Leary (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Leary

English words defined with "Leary": Tim Leary, Timothy Francis Leary, Timothy Leary. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Leary": DSP/C. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	And I'm Denis Leary, master of the universe. (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin) Look, first we had the sea, then America, the west, the moon, Mr. Leary, drugs- the inner journey, Ms. McClaine and our illustrious former first lady- the outer journey. (Flatliners; writing credit: Peter Filardi.)
Lyrics	Timothy Leary. ("Legend Of A Mind"; performing artist: Moody Blues)
Song Titles	100 Naked Kangaroos in Blue Canoes (performing artist: Timothy Leary) Fugu Fish (performing artist: Timothy Leary) Morality's Ugly Head (performing artist: Timothy Leary) No Regrets (performing artist: Timothy Leary) PsychoRelic Rap (performing artist: Timothy Leary)
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Domain	Title
Books	Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture That Changed America: William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, (reference) (more book examples)
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	Maj. Terrence Leary (left) helps Maj. Russell Fellers adjust the seat before taking off on the next 10-mile leg of a 40-mile mountain bike relay during the all-service Wilderness Challenge 2000. Leary and Fellers were members of the Air Force Pentagon tea.		Providing tender services to four destroyers, May 1969, probably in Subic Bay, Philippines. Ships alongside are (left to right): USS Higbee (DD-806); USS Douglas H. Fox (DD-779); USS Robison (DDG-12) and USS Leary (DD-879).Credit: NAVY.
	Watercolor depicting six steamers, with Fort Pulaski in the left center distance, circa 1862-64. As identified on the original artwork, these ships are (from left to right): steamer Swan, of Savannah; C.S. Navy steamer Beauregard; C.S. Navy steamer Ida; steamers Livingston and George Leary (possibly Union ships?); and C.S. Army transport General Lee.Credit: NAVY.		Watercolor depicting six steamers, with Fort Pulaski in the left center distance, circa 1862-64. As identified on the original artwork, these ships are (from left to right): steamer Swan, of Savannah; C.S. Navy steamer Beauregard; C.S. Navy steamer Ida; steamers Livingston and George Leary (possibly Union ships?); and C.S. Army transport General Lee.Credit: NAVY.
	Watercolor depicting six steamers, with Fort Pulaski in the left center distance, circa 1862-64. As identified on the original artwork, these ships are (from left to right): steamer Swan, of Savannah; C.S. Navy steamer Beauregard; C.S. Navy steamer Ida; steamers Livingston and George Leary (possibly Union ships?); and C.S. Army transport General Lee.Credit: NAVY.		The Rebel Fleet of Flag of Truce Boats in the Savannah River going down to the Leary & Hermann Livingstone to take off Rebel prisoners.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Timothy Leary is free.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Denis Leary	Gotta love Lou Gehrig. Jesus Christ, poor Lou Gehrig. Died of Lou Gehrig's disease. How the hell do you not see that coming? You know. We used to tell him, Lou, there's a disease with your name all over it, pal!
	Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Leary" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Leary" is used about 23 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
Noun (proper)	95.65%	22	74,468
Adjective (general or positive)	4.35%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Leary" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Leary	Last name	7,000	1,924
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Leary, GA (city, FIPS 45600)
Location: 31.48493 N, 84.51283 W
Population (1990): 701 (288 housing units)
Area: 8.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 31762
Country: USA

2. Leary, TX (city, FIPS 42028)
Location: 33.47051 N, 94.21215 W
Population (1990): 395 (172 housing units)
Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 75561
Country: USA

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Expressions: Leary

Expressions using "Leary": Tim Leary ♦ Timothy Francis Leary ♦ Timothy Leary. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leary

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
denis leary	405
timothy leary	265
dennis leary	191
leary matt o	143
leary matthew o	66
john leary	55
leary	47
leary o teresa	35
troy o leary	33
tim leary	30
brianne leary	23
leary o patrick	15
margaret o leary	15
o leary	13
leary matt o picture	10
leary quote timothy	9
james leary	7
leary murder o	7
leary roos van	7
leary matthew o picture	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Leary

Language		Translations for "Leary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Vietnamese		không đáng tin cậy (undependable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Leary

Derivations
	Words ending with "Leary": bleary. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Leary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Keary, laery, Larby, Leard, Learny, Learsy, Lerry, Sleary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Leary"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Leary" (pronounced li"rē)
4	l i" r ē	bleary, leery.
3	-i" r ē	beery, cheery, deary, dreary, eerie, teary, theory, weary, wiry.
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Anagrams: Leary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: early, layer, relay.
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-r-y"
	-1 letter: aery, aryl, earl, eyra, lear, lyre, rale, real, rely, yare, year.
	-2 letters: ale, are, aye, ear, era, lar, lay, lea, ley, lye, ray, rya, rye, yar, yea.
	-3 letters: ae, al, ar, ay, el, er, la, re, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-r-y"
	+1 letter: aerily, argyle, barely, barley, bleary, dearly, elytra, flayer, lawyer, layers, lyrate, nearly, parley, pearly, player, rallye, rarely, really, realty, relays, replay, slayer, yarely, yearly.
	+2 letters: alertly, allayer, allergy, already, angerly, areally, argyles, barleys, bilayer, blarney, bravely, caloyer, charley, clayier, clearly, delayer, dryable, eagerly, earthly, flayers, gallery, gravely, greatly, greylag, inlayer, irately, lamprey, larceny, largely, lathery, lawyers, layered, layover, loyaler, lyrated, overlay, palfrey, parleys, parsley, peartly, pedlary, peytral, players, plenary, prelacy, pteryla, rallyes, ravelly, rayless, raylike, readily, reality, reapply, regally, relayed, replays, sealery, slavery, slayers, sparely, tearily, trawley, treacly, virelay, wearily.
	+3 letters: acrylate, adultery, aerially, aerology, alderfly, aleatory, allayers, allegory, analyser, analyzer, ardently, areology, aversely, badgerly, bankerly, barrenly, bearably, beggarly, betrayal, bilayers, biyearly, bladdery, blarneys, blearily, brazenly, cajolery, caloyers, calypter, charleys, clattery, claymore, clayware, coarsely, cravenly, creakily, creamily, cyclecar, cymbaler, dapperly, defrayal, delayers, diablery, dialyser, dialyzer, dreamily, drearily, earthily, easterly, empyreal, errantly, fatherly, fireclay, flackery, flattery, flypaper, forelady, foreplay, freakily, gargoyle, glaziery, gravelly, greasily, greylags, heartily, heraldry, hoarsely, inlayers, interlay, kaleyard, lamasery, lampreys, larynges, larynxes, latterly, lawyered, lawyerly, layerage, layering, layovers, leathery, lethargy, linearly, literacy, literary, lyrately, malarkey, mannerly, markedly, masterly, maturely, meagerly, meagrely, mislayer, neurally, operably, ornately, overlays, overplay, palfreys, paralyse, paralyze, parlayed, parleyed, parleyer, parsleys, peytrals, plastery, playgoer, playwear, psaltery, pterylae, pyrexial, raggedly, raillery, ramosely, rateably, readably, readerly, rectally, regality, relaying, reliably, repandly, replayed, retrally, sacredly, saddlery, scarcely, serially, slabbery, sparsely, squarely, superlay, trawleys, tutelary, underlay, unreally, urbanely, valkyrie, variedly, varletry, verbally, vernally, virelays, walkyrie, waterily, waylayer, yarmelke, yarmulke, yearlies, yearling, yearlong, zealotry.
	+4 letters: acrylates, adversely, agreeably, aliteracy, allometry, allostery, alterably, altimetry, analysers, analyzers, arcuately, artillery, artlessly, assuredly, austerely, averagely, baroquely, bearishly, betrayals, bizarrely, blaeberry, blarneyed, breathily, calypters, carefully, catalyzer, centrally, certainly, chandlery, claymores, claywares, clepsydra, clergyman, comradely, cordately, cyclecars, cymbalers, dayflower, defrayals, desirably, dialysers, dialyzers, dietarily, drysalter, earlywood, earnestly, electuary, embryonal, endurably, enterally, eternally, execrably, exemplary, extrality, fairylike, fallalery, fearfully, federally, fireclays, flypapers, foreplays, gargoyled, gargoyles, generally, germanely, glengarry, guardedly, gyroplane, hairstyle, hemelytra, holidayer, horseplay, hydrolase, hyperbola, interlays, interplay, irreality, jaywalker, kaleyards, laryngeal, laterally, lawyering, layerages, layerings, layperson, learnedly, legendary, legionary, liberally, linearity, literally, liveryman, malarkeys, manslayer, mayflower, medullary, memorably, millenary, minelayer, miserably, mislayers, monolayer, multiyear, myoneural, neutrally, nonlawyer, numerally, operantly, overplays, painterly, paralysed, paralyses, paralyzed, paralyzer, paralyzes, pargyline, parleyers, parleying, parsleyed, perorally, planetary, playgoers, playmaker, polyhedra, polywater, prayerful, preachily, privately, profanely, propylaea, quarterly, radiately, rakehelly, reanalyze, redisplay, refutably, regularly, relatedly, relaxedly, relevancy, reliantly, reliquary, removably, renewably, repayable, replaying, reputably, requalify, roseately, roundelay, royalties, salarymen, searingly, secularly, seriately, severally, severalty, skylarked, skylarker, steelyard, strangely, superably, surreally, teacherly, tearfully, ternately, tetralogy, thermally, tolerably, unawarely, underlays, underplay, unearthly, unreality, valkyries, venerably, ventrally, verdantly, veritably, villagery, vulnerary, walkyries, waylayers, wearingly, weatherly, yarmelkes, yarmulkes, yearlings.
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