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Definition: Demurely |
DemurelyAdverb1. In a demure manner; "the army girl, tall and demurely pretty, threw a quick side-glance at her". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "demurely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: Demurely |
| Specialty definitions using "demurely": BRAHMA. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BRAHMA, n. He who created the Hindoos, who are preserved by Vishnu and destroyed by Siva -- a rather neater division of labor than is found among the deities of some other nations. The Abracadabranese, for example, are created by Sin, maintained by Theft and destroyed by Folly. The priests of Brahma, like those of Abracadabranese, are holy and learned men who are never naughty. O Brahma, thou rare old Divinity, First Person of the Hindoo Trinity, You sit there so calm and securely, With feet folded up so demurely -- You're the First Person Singular, surely. Polydore Smith |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Demurely" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Demurely" is used about 65 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% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
demurely | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "demurely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | zimperliche (prissily, prudishly, squeamishly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | illedelmesen (decorously), higgadtan (composedly, guardedly, imperturbably, leisurely, moderately, placidly, sedately, serenely), álszemérmesen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | emurelyday cu sfialã, cochet (arch, archly, coquettish, flirtatious, saucy, smartly, stylish), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Demurely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Demeraby, Demiral, demoral, demural, Deurle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "demurely" (pronounced di'myuh"rlē) |
| 5 | -y uh" r l ē | purely, securely. |
| 4 | -uh" r l ē | poorly, prematurely, surely. |
| 3 | -r l ē | austerely, barely, barley, cavalierly, Charley, Charlie, clearly, dearly, fairly, gnarly, hourly, merely, nearly, parley, rarely, severely, sincerely, sorely, squarely, unfairly, yearly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-m-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: relumed. | |
-2 letters: demure, drumly, dueler, eluder, medley, melder, merely, relume, remedy, rudely. | |
-3 letters: demur, elder, elude, emery, emyde, leery, lemur, lured, merde, merle, muled, muley, mured, redly, redye, reedy, ruled. | |
-4 letters: deem, deer, dele, deme, demy, dere, derm, dree, drum, duel, duly, dure, dyer, eely, eery, elmy, emeu, emyd, eyed, eyer, eyre, leer, leud. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-m-r-u-y" | |
+2 letters: measuredly, presumedly. | |
+3 letters: denumerably. | |
+4 letters: multilayered, tremendously, underlayment, unmanneredly. | |
+5 letters: countermelody, deuteranomaly, underemployed, underlayments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6D 75 72 65 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -- ..- .-. . .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101101 01110101 01110010 01100101 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e m u r e l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006D 0075 0072 0065 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3871798784717891 |
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