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Definition: Avidly |
AvidlyAdverb1. In an avid manner; "whatever the flavor or color of your local paper, do remember that these are read avidly for local information". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "avidly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
Crosswords: Avidly |
| English words defined with "avidly": devour. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "avidly": CEPHAELIS IPECACUANHA ♦ Macrophage Activation. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Japan | Also, consumer styles and fashions emanate from Tokyo in avidly read magazines as well as the television networks. (references) |
Bolivia | Successive Bolivian governments have avidly sought to attract foreign investors to augment the country's asset base. (references) | |
Slovenia | Since gaining independence, Slovenia avidly has sought NATO membership as part of its overall strategy of integration into the most important international economic, financial, and security organizations. (references) | |
Political Economy | Luxembourg | Similarly, because it recognizes the economic potential of the burgeoning e-commerce industry (particularly as it applies to the financial sector), Luxembourg has been avidly supporting all EU initiatives in that area. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Avidly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Avidly" is used about 119 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 119 | 29,501 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "avidly": read avidly. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "avidly": avidly-read. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "avidly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 热中地. (various references) | |
Czech | vášnivì (heatedly). (various references) | |
French | désireuxse. (various references) | |
German | gierig (avaricious, avariciously, avid, grabby, greedily, greedy, hoggish, lustful, piggishly, voracious), begierige. (various references) | |
Greek | απληστώσ, αχόρταγα (voraciously). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mohón (anxiously, covetously, eagerly, greedily, voraciously). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 貪り読む (to read a book avidly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | むさぼりよむ (to read a book avidly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | avidlyay.(various references) | |
Russian | жадно (acquisitively, devouringly, greedily, thirstily, wolfishly). (various references) | |
Swedish | glupskt. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | с жадобою, жадібно (acquisitively, greedily, hungrily). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "avidly": gravidly. (additional references) | |
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"Avidly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aidley, averly, avili, avioli, Avrili, Savoldi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "avidly" (pronounced a"vudlē) |
| 5 | -v u d l ē | deservedly, vividly. |
| 4 | -u d l ē | acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avowedly, belatedly, candidly, contentedly, decidedly, determinedly, doggedly, evenhandedly, excitedly, guardedly, heatedly, markedly, placidly, pointedly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, rigidly, ruggedly, solidly, splendidly, stupidly, supposedly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unprecedentedly, validly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, wretchedly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, coldly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, Diddley, kindly, downwardly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, haphazardly, hardly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, loudly, madly, medley, mildly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, profoundly, proudly, Ridley, roundly, rudely, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, soundly, straightforwardly, thirdly, unfriendly, ungodly, upwardly, weirdly, widely, wildly, worldly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-v-y" | |
-1 letter: daily, valid. | |
-2 letters: avid, davy, dial, diva, idly, idyl, lady, laid, vail, vial, yald. | |
-3 letters: aid, ail, dal, day, ivy, lad, lav, lay, lid, via, yid. | |
-4 letters: ad, ai, al, ay, id, la, li, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-v-y" | |
+1 letter: validly, vapidly. | |
+2 letters: datively, gravidly, validity, variedly. | |
+3 letters: advisably, advisedly, avoidably, invalidly. | |
+4 letters: adaptively, additively, adhesively, adoptively, invalidity, medievally. | |
+5 letters: adjectively, adverbially, aggrievedly, daredevilry, deliveryman, drivability, nonvalidity, oxidatively, unadvisedly, unavoidably, valedictory, veridically. | |
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