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Definition: Drily |
DrilyAdverb1. With dry humor; "`Never mind the hole in the ceiling,' he saiid drily". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He rubbed his hands slowly and drily over the difficulty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Drily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drily" is used about 411 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% | 411 | 13,718 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "drily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thatë (barely, dry, dryly, only, said), pa emocion (dryly), në mënyrë të thatë (dryly), ftohtë (chilly, cold, coldly, dryly, icily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 干燥地 (Dryly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trocken (arid, barren, bookish, dead pan, dry, dry-cell, dryly, dusty, humorless, humorlessly, humourless, humourlessly, jejune, stale, uninspiring, wry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στεγνά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | unalmasan (boringly, dryly, prosaically), szárazon (dryly, prosaically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 건조하게 (Dryly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilydray sec (bald, barren, cold, dried up, dry, dull, empty, glacial, harshly, hollow, literal, stupid, useless). (various references) suvo (dry). (various references) susuz olarak, kuruca, kurak olarak. (various references) vô vị (arid, banal, dry, dryasdust, dryly, dusty, insipid, milk and water, platitudinarian, platitudinous, savourless, tame, tasteless, unsavoury, watery), phớt lạnh (dryly), lạnh nhạt (chilly, cold, cold-hearted, coldly, distant, dry, dryly), lạnh lùng; cứng nhắc (dry, dryly), lãnh đạm (apathetic, dry, dryly, tepid, unconcerned), không thú vị vô tình (dry, dryly), khô ráo khô khan (dryly), khô cạn (dryly), khô (dry, dryly, non-aqueous), cộc lốc; tỉnh khô (dry, dryly), cụt lủn (dry, dryly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "drily": tawdrily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: dirl, idly, idyl, yird. | |
-2 letters: dry, lid, rid, yid. | |
-3 letters: id, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: aridly, direly, ridley. | |
+2 letters: acridly, buirdly, devilry, dirtily, dribbly, drizzly, hardily, lairdly, luridly, pyralid, rabidly, rapidly, readily, reedily, ridleys, rigidly, rowdily, ruddily, tardily, thirdly, tiredly, weirdly, wordily, yielder. | |
+3 letters: adroitly, bridally, broodily, credibly, cylinder, daringly, delivery, deviltry, diablery, dialyser, dialyzer, dilatory, directly, draftily, dreamily, drearily, dressily, droopily, drowsily, elytroid, fervidly, floridly, friendly, frigidly, gravidly, greedily, gyroidal, horridly, idolatry, inwardly, kailyard, ladybird, lampyrid, lapidary, lyrebird, morbidly, polybrid, putridly, pyralids, radially, rancidly, ribaldly, ribaldry, soldiery, solidary, sordidly, sturdily, tawdrily, tiltyard, torpidly, torridly, trendily, turbidly, turgidly, variedly, willyard, wizardly, yielders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 69 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. .. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01101001 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r i l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0069 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)3884757891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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