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Definitions: Inexpensively |
InexpensivelyAdverb1. In a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar". 2. With little expenditure of money; "I bought this car very cheaply". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inexpensively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Synonyms: InexpensivelySynonyms: cheaply (adv), tattily (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: expensively (adv). (additional references) |
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Health | The first, EOAE, rapidly and inexpensively rules out significant hearing impairment (99.9 percent of all babies), but has limited specificity. (references) | |
A simple test is now available that can determine if a woman is carrier of the Fragile X gene. A drop of blood can be taken from the woman's finger and analyzed quickly and inexpensively. (references) | ||
Business | Once satellite can be used effectively and inexpensively, the companies can stop putting wires on the ground. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Users of GSM cellular telephones only need a connection to the existing local network, which can be effected inexpensively with prepaid cellular cards. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Inexpensively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inexpensively" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "inexpensively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 低廉地. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | wohlfeil, preiswert (good value, inexpensive). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 安く . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | やすく. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 싸게 (Cheap, Cheaply). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | inexpensivelyay ieftin (cheap, commonplace, fair, inexpensive, low, low-priced, modest, popular, reasonable, threepenny, trite, twopenny, worthless). (various references) | ||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inexpensively" (pronounced i'nukspe"nsivlē) |
| 10 | -k s p e" n s i v l ē | expensively. |
| 7 | -e" n s i v l ē | comprehensively, defensively, extensively, intensively, offensively. |
| 5 | -s i v l ē | aggressively, cohesively, compulsively, conclusively, decisively, derisively, effusively, excessively, exclusively, explosively, impassively, impressively, impulsively, inconclusively, massively, obsessively, passively, persuasively, progressively, reflexively, successively. |
| 4 | -i v l ē | accumulatively, actively, administratively, affectively, affirmatively, alternatively, appreciatively, assertively, attentively, attractively, authoritatively, collectively, comparatively, competitively, consecutively, conservatively, constructively, cooperatively, creatively, cumulatively, deceptively, definitively, distinctively, effectively, exhaustively, figuratively, furtively, imaginatively, instinctively, intuitively, legislatively, negatively, objectively, positively, preemptively, productively, prohibitively, prospectively, protectively, provocatively, qualitatively, relatively, respectively, retroactively, retrospectively, seductively, selectively, sensitively, substantively, tentatively. |
| 3 | -v l ē | bravely, gravely, lively, lovely, naively, plaintively, quantitatively. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-p-s-v-x-y" | |
-2 letters: expensively, inexpensive. | |
-4 letters: expensive, pensively. | |
-5 letters: enlivens, sixpenny. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 65 78 70 65 6E 73 69 76 65 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. . -..- .--. . -. ... .. ...- . .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100101 01111000 01110000 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n e x p e n s i v e l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0065 0078 0070 0065 006E 0073 0069 0076 0065 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43807190827180857588717891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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