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Amusingly

Definition: Amusingly

Amusingly

Adverb

1. In an entertaining and amusing manner; "Hollywood has grown too sophisticated to turn out anything really amusingly bad these days".

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

Date "amusingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)


Synonym: Amusingly

Synonym: divertingly (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Amusingly

English words defined with "amusingly": divertingly. (references)
Specialty definitions using "amusingly": considered harmful. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Amusingly

"Amusingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amusingly" is used about 41 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%4153,521

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amusingly

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  amusingly perfect

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Amusingly

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

German

  

vergnügliche (pleasurably). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amusinglyay

   

Russian 

  

забавно (amusedly, drolly, funnily, jokingly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

graciosamente (gracefully, graciously, wittily). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

roligt (fun). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

eğlendirici bir şekilde. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

смішно (funnily, ridiculously), кумедно, забавно. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Amusingly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "amusingly" (pronounced umyuw"zinglē)
7-y uw" z i ng l ēaccusingly, confusingly.
5-z i ng l ēagonizingly, amazingly, pleasingly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, unsurprisingly.
4-i ng l ēaccordingly, admiringly, alarmingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frighteningly, frowningly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, strikingly, stunningly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, warningly, willingly, wittingly.
3-ng l ēgangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Amusingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-m-n-s-u-y"

-1 letter: musingly.

-2 letters: alumins, amusing, lingams, lungyis, maligns, mangily, mauling, mayings, nilgaus, slaying.

-3 letters: algins, algums, aligns, almugs, alumin, alumni, animus, asylum, gainly, gamily, gamins, inlays, laming, lasing, laying, liangs, ligans, limans, lingam, lingas, lingua, linums, lumina, lungis, lungyi, lyings, lysing, mainly, malign, maying, miauls, mislay, muling, musing, muslin, nilgau, saying, signal, singly, slangy.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-m-n-s-u-y"
 

+4 letters: magnanimously, unambiguously.

 

+5 letters: mucilaginously.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Amusingly


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

41 6D 75 73 69 6E 67 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 01101101 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#117 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 0075 0073 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079

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

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

357987857580737891

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INDEX

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


  

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