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Definitions: Defensively |
DefensivelyAdverb1. In an apologetic and self-defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively". 2. In a defensive manner; "the general conviction that our side is in the right and acting defensively over what Russians call the German question and Americans the Berlin crisis". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "defensively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
| Antonym: offensively (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Adverb: defensively; on the defense, on the defensive; in defense; at bay, pro aris et focis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Defensively |
| Specialty definitions using "defensively": precedence lossage. (references) |
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| "Defensively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.53% of the time. "Defensively" is used about 212 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) | 99.53% | 211 | 20,883 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 212 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "defensively": defensively-minded. | |
Ending with "defensively": non-defensively. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "defensively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 防御上. (various references) | ||||
German | defensive (defensive). (various references) | ||||
Greek | αμυντικά. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | védelemre, védekezés céljából, védekezően. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 방어 으로. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | efensivelyday | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "defensively" (pronounced dufe"nsivlē) |
| 9 | -u f e" n s i v l ē | offensively. |
| 7 | -e" n s i v l ē | comprehensively, expensively, extensively, inexpensively, intensively. |
| 5 | -s i v l ē | aggressively, cohesively, compulsively, conclusively, decisively, derisively, effusively, excessively, exclusively, explosively, impassively, impressively, impulsively, inconclusively, massively, obsessively, passively, persuasively, progressively, reflexively, successively. |
| 4 | -i v l ē | accumulatively, actively, administratively, affectively, affirmatively, alternatively, appreciatively, assertively, attentively, attractively, authoritatively, collectively, comparatively, competitively, consecutively, conservatively, constructively, cooperatively, creatively, cumulatively, deceptively, definitively, distinctively, effectively, exhaustively, figuratively, furtively, imaginatively, instinctively, intuitively, legislatively, negatively, objectively, positively, preemptively, productively, prohibitively, prospectively, protectively, provocatively, qualitatively, relatively, respectively, retroactively, retrospectively, seductively, selectively, sensitively, substantively, tentatively. |
| 3 | -v l ē | bravely, gravely, lively, lovely, naively, plaintively, quantitatively. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-f-i-l-n-s-v-y" | |
-2 letters: defensive. | |
-3 letters: selenide, sniveled. | |
-4 letters: defense, defiles, defines, densely, densify, deveins, devisee, elevens, endives, enisled, ensiled, eyelids, felines, flensed, linseed, livened, needily, needles, seedily, sleeved, snidely, sylvine, vendees, yeelins. | |
-5 letters: defies, defile, define, delves, denies, devein, devels, devils, devise, dienes, diesel, dynels, ediles, eleven, elfins, elides, endive, enisle, ensile, envied, envies, evened, evenly, eyelid, felids, feline, fields, fiends, finely, flense, fleyed, lensed, leveed, levees, levied, levies, levins, linsey, livens, lysine, needle, nieves, sedile, seeled, seidel, seined, selfed, senile, sieved, sleeve, snivel, sylvin, veiled, veined, vendee, vinyls, viseed, yeelin, yields. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 66 65 6E 73 69 76 65 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . ..-. . -. ... .. ...- . .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100110 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e f e n s i v e l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0066 0065 006E 0073 0069 0076 0065 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3871727180857588717891 |
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