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SORRILY

Definition: SORRILY

SORRILY

Adverb

1. In a sorry manner; poorly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SORRILY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)


Modern Translation: SORRILY

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

German

  

betrübt (afflicts, aggrieved, distressed, gloomy, saddened, saddens, sorrowfully, sorry, upset). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λυπηρώσ (regrettably). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orrilysay

   

Russian 

  

огорченно. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SORRILY"

Words rhyming with "SORRILY" (pronounced 'Sor"ri*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SORRILY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-l-o-r-r-s-y"

-1 letter: rosily.

-2 letters: loris, lorry, orris, roils, roily, sorry, yirrs.

-3 letters: lory, oils, oily, roil, rosy, silo, soil, soli, sori, syli, yirr.

-4 letters: lis, oil, ors, sir, sly, sol, soy, sri.

-5 letters: is, li, lo, or, os, oy, si, so, yo.

 Words containing the letters "i-l-o-r-r-s-y"
 

+2 letters: cursorily, floristry.

 

+3 letters: disorderly, rigorously, superiorly.

 

+4 letters: corrosively, posteriorly, sartorially, worrisomely.

 

+5 letters: cryosurgical, disorderedly, gregariously, irresolutely, microcrystal, perjuriously, precariously, proselytizer, protrusively, roisterously, scurrilously, stridulatory, traitorously, transitorily, uproariously.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SORRILY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4F 52 52 49 4C 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ---    .-.    .-.    ..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001111 01010010 01010010 01001001 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#82 &#82 &#73 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 0052 0052 0049 004C 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53495252434659

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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