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Definition: Guardedly |
GuardedlyAdverb1. In a conservative manner; "we estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "guardedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Synonyms: GuardedlySynonyms: cautiously (adv), conservatively (adv). (additional references) |
| "Guardedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Guardedly" is used about 47 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% | 47 | 49,740 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "guardedly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me vigjilencë (vigilantly), me kujdes (carefully, choicely, deliberately, neatly, thriftily, warily). (various references) | |
Arabic | على نحو واق, بحذر (carefully, cautiously, in a velvet glove), بتعقل (intelligently, politically, rationally). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | внимателно (carefully, cautiously, close, closely, gently, narrowly, nicely, steady, warily), предпазливо (carefully, cautiously, cosy, gingerly, reservedly, warily). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小心 (Caution). (various references) | |
Czech | zdrženlivì (reservedly), opatrnì (carefully, cautiously, gingerly, warily, with care). (various references) | |
French | serré, prudemment, avec réserve, avec circonspection. (various references) | |
German | vorsichtig (cagey, canny, careful, carefully, cautiouns, cautious, cautiously, charily, chary, circumspect, circumspectly, conservative, deliberate, gingerly, guarded, prudent, safe, safely, steady, tentative, warily, wary). (various references) | |
Hebrew | במאופק, בז"ירות (cautiously, gingerly, mindfully), ב"תאפקות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | óvatosan (cagily, cautiously, charily, circumspectly, gingerly, to pussyfoot, warily, watchfully). (various references) | |
Italian | prudente (careful, cautions, cautious, chary, circumspect, conservative, deliberate, politic, prudent, safe). (various references) | |
Manx | dy h-arreydagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | forsiktig (careful, cautious). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uardedlygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prudentemente (providently, warily), cautelosamente (close, closely, earshot, gingerly, warily). (various references) | |
Russian | сдержанно (frostily, in moderation, reservedly). (various references) | |
Scottish | faicilleach (wary). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | obazrivo (carefuly, vigilantly). (various references) | |
Spanish | prevenido (careful, cautions, chary, circumspect, warned), con circunspección, con caución, cautelosamente (cautiously, gingerly, warily). (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างระมั"ระวัง. (various references) | |
Turkish | tetikte olarak, korunarak, ihtiyatlı bir biçimde. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стримано (abstemiously, abstinently, discreetly, distantly, frostily, strangely), обережно (beware, carefully, deliberately, discreetly, gently, gingerly, handle with care, look ahead, look out, nix, providently, steady). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | custodite. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "guardedly": unguardedly. (additional references) | |
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"Guardedly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Giardello. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "guardedly" (pronounced gÄ"rdudlē) |
| 5 | -d u d l ē | candidly, decidedly, evenhandedly, splendidly. |
| 4 | -u d l ē | acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, belatedly, contentedly, deservedly, determinedly, doggedly, excitedly, heatedly, markedly, placidly, pointedly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, rigidly, ruggedly, solidly, stupidly, supposedly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unprecedentedly, validly, vividly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, wretchedly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, coldly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, Diddley, kindly, downwardly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, haphazardly, hardly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, loudly, madly, medley, mildly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, profoundly, proudly, Ridley, roundly, rudely, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, soundly, straightforwardly, thirdly, unfriendly, ungodly, upwardly, weirdly, widely, wildly, worldly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-l-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: gaudery, gladder, guarded. | |
-3 letters: agedly, argled, argued, argyle, aulder, deadly, dearly, drayed, drudge, gadder, glared, graded, grayed, ladder, larded, lauded, lauder, raddle, ruddle, rudely, yarded. | |
-4 letters: adder, addle, agley, alder, argle, argue, auger, dared, deary, dedal, delay, deray, dread, dryad, dural, dured, early, gaudy, gayer, glade, glady, glare, glary, glued, gluer, gluey, grade. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-g-l-r-u-y" | |
+2 letters: unguardedly. | |
+5 letters: glutaraldehyde. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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