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Definition: Dreamily |
DreamilyAdverb1. In a dreamy manner; "`She would look beautiful in the new dress,' Tommy said dreamily". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dreamily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Synonyms: DreamilySynonyms: dreamfully (adv), moonily (adv). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Coloring your face so dreamily. (LAY DOWN SALLY; performing artist: ERIC CLAPTON) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | He lay looking and listening dreamily. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | So this is Malata, she murmured dreamily. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Dreamily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dreamily" is used about 95 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% | 95 | 33,629 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dreamily": half-dreamily. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dreamily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | si në ëndërr (dreamy). (various references) | |
Arabic | على نحو غامض, على نحو حالم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | замечтано. (various references) | |
Czech | snivì. (various references) | |
French | d'un ton rêveur, d'un air rêveur. (various references) | |
German | verträumte (dreamt away). (various references) | |
Greek | ονειρικά. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ほら貝 (abstractedly, baby, being stupefied, blankly, by ones and twos, clip joint, conch, crunch, dazedly, dimly, doing nothing, doll, drip drip, dry and crumbling, faintly, flushingly, gradually, hazily, here and there, idling away time, in flames, indistinctly, it's getting late, little by little, munch, one after another, pimples, rip-off, slang for cunt, slightly, splash, spots, subdued, to be moved to tears, to be touched by, to become blurred, to become dim, to become sentimental, to complain, to grumble, to rip someone off, trumpet shell, unfair overcharging, vaguely, we must be getting off, whispering, with a splash). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼうっと (abstractedly, being stupefied, blankly, dazedly, dimly, doing nothing, faintly, flushingly, hazily, in flames, indistinctly, vaguely). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamilydray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sonhadoramente. (various references) | |
Romanian | ca în vis. (various references) | |
Russian | мечтательно. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sneno, sanjalačko. (various references) | |
Spanish | soñando. (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างเพ้อฝัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | sersem sersem (giddily, muzzily). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сонно, мрійно (wistfully). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | như trong giấc mơ mơ m ng, mơ mộng (moonily, moony). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Dreamily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dreamly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-m-r-y" | |
-1 letter: midyear, readily. | |
-2 letters: admire, aerily, aridly, ariled, dearly, derail, dermal, dialer, direly, dreamy, laired, mailed, mailer, marled, medial, medlar, milady, milder, myriad, railed, redial, relaid, remail, ridley. | |
-3 letters: aider, ailed, aimed, aimer, aired, alder, amide, ariel, armed, daily, dairy, deair, deary, delay, deray, derma, diary, dimer, dimly, drail, dream, drily, early, email, ideal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-m-r-y" | |
+2 letters: acrylamide, remedially. | |
+3 letters: acrylamides, deliveryman, dilatometry, maledictory. | |
+4 letters: daydreamlike, determinably, holidaymaker, immoderately, imponderably, irredeemably, irremediably, meridionally, multilayered. | |
+5 letters: adumbratively, aerodynamical, determinately, detrimentally, diametrically, documentarily, holidaymakers, hydroxylamine, intradermally, predominantly, predominately, remediability, rudimentarily, semilegendary. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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