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Fearsomely

Definition: Fearsomely

Fearsomely

Adverb

1. In a fearsome manner; "a sabre slammed fearsomely through the thicket in all directions".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fearsomely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)

 

Usage Frequency: Fearsomely

"Fearsomely" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fearsomely" is used about 15 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fearsomely

Language Translations for "fearsomely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

fürchterliche (tremendously). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earsomelyfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fearsomely

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-m-o-r-s-y"

-2 letters: fearsome, ramosely.

-3 letters: amylose, areoles, erosely, females, femoral, flamers, flayers, foamers, formals, formyls, loafers, morales, safrole, sealery.

-4 letters: ameers, amoles, areole, falser, farles, female, femora, flamer, flames, flares, flayer, fleams, fleers, florae, floras, flyers, foamer, forams, forays, formal, formee, formes, formyl, foyers, frames, freely, larees, layers, leaser, loafer, mayors, measle, measly, merely, merles.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-l-m-o-r-s-y"
 

+3 letters: formaldehydes.

 

+5 letters: methoxyfluranes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fearsomely


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 65 61 72 73 6F 6D 65 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#115 &#111 &#109 &#101 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 0061 0072 0073 006F 006D 0065 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40716784858179717891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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