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Definition: Limply |
LimplyAdverb1. Without rigidity; "the body was hanging limply from the tree". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "limply" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Crosswords: Limply |
| English words defined with "limply": floppy. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Its tail hung limply curled, and it panted loudly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Limply" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 97.80% of the time. "Limply" is used about 91 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) | 97.8% | 89 | 34,931 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "limply"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 软绵绵地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hervottomasti (inertly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | avachi (limp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schlapp (flabby, floppy, lily livered, limp, listless, nerveless, run down, shattered, washed out, worn out, yellow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spossato (exhausted, jaded, worn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 맥빠지게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | implylay moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, lax, light, limp, mellow, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), fãrã vlagã (amort, bloodless, flabby, flat, inert, languid, languidly, limp). (various references) šantavo. (various references) gevşekçe (flabbily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Limply" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Leoppky, lippily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-m-p-y" | |
-1 letter: imply. | |
-2 letters: illy, lily, limp, limy, mill, pill, pily, yill. | |
-3 letters: ill, imp, lip, mil, ply, yip. | |
-4 letters: li, mi, my, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-m-p-y" | |
+1 letter: lumpily. | |
+2 letters: glumpily, limpidly, multiply, psyllium. | |
+3 letters: lumpishly, optimally, psylliums. | |
+4 letters: blimpishly, episomally, impalpably, imperially, implacably, implicitly, impolitely, microphyll, myopically, phyllodium, polynomial, primevally, proximally. | |
+5 letters: baptismally, compliantly, empirically, exemplarily, impartially, implausibly, imploringly, impoliticly, impulsively, mesophyllic, microphylls, multiplayer, multiplying, municipally, plasmolysis, plasmolytic, polemically, polyglotism, polynomials, pyramidally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 6D 70 6C 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. -- .--. .-.. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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