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Abstractly

Definition: Abstractly

Abstractly

Adverb

1. In abstract terms.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "abstractly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Antonym: concretely (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Abstractly

English words defined with "abstractly": abstractcanalise, canalize, channel, create by mental act, create mentally. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Abstractly

"Abstractly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abstractly" is used about 11 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%11106,044

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

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Modern Translations: Abstractly

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

German

  

abstrakt (abstract, abstractedly). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szórakozottan (absently, abstractedly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

astratto (abstract, abstracted, abstractedly, abstractive, discrete). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abstractlyay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

abstratamente (abstractedly). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

abstract (abstract, abstractive, abstruse, discrete, fine-spun, lunar, notionally, pure, remote). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отвлеченно (distractedly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

abstractamente (abstractedly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

abstrakt (abstract, notional, transcendental). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Abstractly"

Words rhyming with "abstractly" (pronounced 'Ab"stract`ly'): Barefacedly, Bellicosely, Braggingly, Brainsickly, Circumscriptly, Complexly, Counterfeitly, Counter-paly, Dilly-dally, Epicurely, Expeditely, Ferforthly, Foremostly, fortnightly, Gor-belly, half-hourly, half-yearly, Handfastly, housewifely, Hurly-burly, Hyperduly, Ingrately, Innermostly, Lilly-pilly, loblolly, Manifoldly, Morphophyly, naively, Nonchalantly, Orthodoxly, Paramountly, Pasilaly, Pot-belly, Qualifiedly, redbelly, Rightwisely, Rolly-poly, Sawbelly, Speckled-belly, Swagbelly, Tilly-vally, tread-softly, Triweekly, uniformly, uprightly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Abstractly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-l-r-s-t-t-y"

-1 letter: tractably.

-2 letters: abstract, catalyst.

-3 letters: astylar, barytas, crystal, lactary, ratably, stratal.

-4 letters: altars, astral, astray, attars, baryta, basalt, blasty, bracts, bratty, cabals, carats, craals, lascar, lyttas, rabats, rascal, ratals, rattly, sacral, salary, scalar, scarab, scatty, stably, statal, strata, stylar, tablas, talars, tarsal, tartly, tatars, tracts.

-5 letters: acyls, alary, albas, altar, artal, artsy, aryls, asyla, atlas, attar, baals, balas, balsa, basal, batts, batty, blast, blats, bract, brats, brays, byrls, cabal, carat, carbs, carls, carts, catty, clary, clast, clays, craal, crabs, labra, lyart, lytta, rabat, ratal, ratty, rayas, sabra, sacra, salty, satay, satyr, scaly, scart, scary, scatt, slaty, start, stray, tabla, tacts, talar, talas, talcs, tarts, tarty, tasty, tatar, tract, trays, tryst.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-l-r-s-t-t-y"
 

+2 letters: abstractedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Abstractly


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

41 62 73 74 72 61 63 74 6C 79

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)

01000001 01100010 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#98 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#99 &#116 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0062 0073 0074 0072 0061 0063 0074 006C 0079

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

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

35688586846769867891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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