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Definition: Fancifully |
FancifullyAdverb1. In a fanciful manner; "the Christmas tree was fancifully decorated". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fancifully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonym: FancifullySynonym: whimsically (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fancifully |
| English words defined with "fancifully": Chimerically, Crazy quilt ♦ mock privet ♦ Rustic work ♦ secretary bird ♦ whimsically. (references) |
| "Fancifully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fancifully" is used about 16 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% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "fancifully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 稀奇地. (various references) | ||||
German | phantasiereiche, fantastisch (fantastic, heath robinson). (various references) | ||||
Italian | fantasiosamente. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 기발하게. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ancifullyfay | ||||
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"Fancifully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Facefulls. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-f-i-l-l-n-u-y" | |
-2 letters: fanciful, uncially. | |
-3 letters: fancify, fancily, finally, nullify. | |
-4 letters: canful, cliffy, clinal, cullay, fulfil, infall, lacily, lunacy, uncial. | |
-5 letters: aulic, calif, cliff, cully, fancy, filly, final, flail, fully, inlay, lilac, linac, luffa, uncia, unify, unlay, yulan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-f-i-l-l-n-u-y" | |
+2 letters: unofficially. | |
+3 letters: ineffectually. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6E 63 69 66 75 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -. -.-. .. ..-. ..- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01101001 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a n c i f u l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006E 0063 0069 0066 0075 006C 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)40678069757287787891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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