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Definition: Indistinctly |
IndistinctlyAdverb1. In a dim indistinct manner; "we perceived the change only dimly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "indistinctly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: IndistinctlySynonym: dimly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Indistinctly |
| English words defined with "indistinctly": adumbrative ♦ Cryptocrystalline ♦ Darkle ♦ faint, foreshadowing ♦ Leptothrix, loom ♦ maunder, mumble, mumbler, mumbling, murmur, mussitate, mutter, mutterer, muttering ♦ prefigurative ♦ slur, swallow ♦ Undistinctly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "indistinctly": Indistinct ♦ Stones, subconchoidal. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Their voices came down, afar and indistinctly, from the upper heights where they habitually dwelt |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Your name, has, it is true, reached me confusedly, and I must say not very indistinctly, but that matters not. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Indistinctly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indistinctly" is used about 18 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% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "indistinctly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vagëtll, turbull (faintly, vaguely). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смътно (indefinitely, remotely), неопределено (indefinitely, loosely). (various references) | |
Czech | zmatenì (pell mell, perplexedly). (various references) | |
German | unklar (blurred, cloudy, doubtful, equivocal, equivocally, foggy, hazy, incoherent, indefinite, indefinitely, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, misty, murky, nebulous, nondistinctive, obscure, obscurely, opaque, sketchy, unclarified, unclear, vague, woolly), undeutliche (fuzzily, inarticulately, undistinguishably, unexplicitly, vague), undeutlich (blurred, dimly, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, inarticulately, indefinite, indefinitely, indistinct, indistinguishable, muddled, mumblingly, obscure, obscurely, slurred, unarticulate, uncertain, unclear, undistinguishable, undistinguished, unemphatic, unexplicit, vague), unartikuliert (inarticulate, indistinct, unarticulated, unclear). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nem kivehetően, homályosan (abstrusely, darkly, dimly, mistily), határozatlanul (doubtfully, evasively, unsteadily, vaguely). (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, dreamily, drip drip, dry and crumbling, faintly, flushingly, gradually, hazily, here and there, idling away time, in flames, 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, dreamily, faintly, flushingly, hazily, in flames, vaguely). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | indistinctlyay.(various references) | |
Romanian | nedesluşit (dull, indefinite, indistinct, loose, obscure). (various references) | |
Russian | невнятно. (various references) | |
Scottish | spagach (uttering words indistinctly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nerazgovetno, nejasno (darkly, dimly, fuzzily, thickly, vaguely). (various references) | |
Turkish | hayal meyal (dreaming, dreamy, fuzzy, indistinct, misty, shadowy, vague), belli belirsiz (dreaming, dreamy, faint, hardly visible, imperceptible, indistinct, insensible, nebulous, nebulously, shadowy, slight, slightly, soft, tentative, vaguely), belirsiz olarak (indefinitely). (various references) | |
Welsh | bloesgi (falter, lisp, speak indistinctly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "indistinctly" (pronounced 'In`dis*tinct"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-i-i-l-n-n-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: distinctly, indistinct. | |
-4 letters: distinct, instinct, stylitic. | |
-5 letters: dicliny, idylist, indicts, tinnily. | |
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