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Definition: Lustily |
LustilyAdverb1. In a healthy manner; "the young plants grew lustily". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lustily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exertion | Adverb: laboriously; Adjective: lustily; pugnis et calcibus; with might and main, with all one's might, with a strong hand, with a sledge hammer, with much ado; to the best of one's abilities, totis viribus, vi et armis, manibus pedibusque, tooth and nail, unguibus et rostro, hammer and tongs, heart and soul; through thick and thin; (perseverance) a. |
Lamentation | Scream; (cry out); mew; (animal sounds); groan, moan, whine; roar; roar like a bull, bellow like a bull; cry out lustily, rend the air. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lustily |
| Specialty definitions using "lustily": Friar John. (references) |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | And their assembled friends being not a bit behindhand, roared out lustily. |
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| "Lustily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lustily" is used about 26 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% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "lustily": cry out lustily. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lustily | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lustily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | юнашки, с всички сили (flat out). (various references) | |
Chinese | 好色地. (various references) | |
French | luxurieux (lustful). (various references) | |
German | geil (brilliant, fat, fatty, fertile, greasy, horny, lecherous, lustful, luxurious, prurient, randy, rank, raunchy, rich, wicked). (various references) | |
Greek | σφριγηλώσ, ευρωστώσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vitézül (valiantly), teli torokkal, teli (fraught, full, replete, stumpy), tüdőből, nagy elánnal, erőteljesen (forcefully, forcibly, robustfully, roundly, to the fore, vigorously). (various references) | |
Italian | lascivo (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lustful, prurient, Randy, voluptuous, wanton). (various references) | |
Korean | 튼튼하게 (Durably, robustly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ustilylay.(various references) | |
Romanian | pãtimaş (ardent, ardently, fervent, fervently, fiery, inveterate, passionate, passionately), din rãsputeri (all out, amain, with all his might), cu pasiune (passionately). (various references) | |
Scottish | laoir (drub lustily). (various references) | |
Spanish | cachondo (fast, horny, hot, lustful, randy). (various references) | |
Swedish | lustfyllt (lustfully), kraftfullt (forcefully, powerfully, strongly), energiskt, av alla krafter. (various references) | |
Turkish | kuvvetle (mightily, strong, strongly), şiddetle (amain, drastically, faithfully, forcibly, heavily, heavy, hot, keenly, roundly, severely, sharp, sore, sorely, strenuously, strong, strongly, violently). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Lustily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clustalv, lushily, lustril, rustily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "lustily" (pronounced 'Lus"ti*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: stilly. | |
-2 letters: lilts, lusty, silly, silty, slily, still, stull, styli, sully, tills, yills. | |
-3 letters: ills, illy, lilt, lily, list, lits, litu, lust, sill, silt, slit, suit, syli, till, tils, tuis, yill. | |
-4 letters: ill, its, lis, lit, sit, sly, sty, til, tis, tui, uts. | |
-5 letters: is, it, li, si, ti, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-s-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: sultrily. | |
+2 letters: cultishly, loutishly, subtilely, wistfully. | |
+3 letters: bustlingly, rustically, salutarily, sluttishly, solubility, spitefully, tristfully. | |
+4 letters: caustically, desultorily, dissolutely, fruitlessly, glutinously, guiltlessly, insultingly, litigiously, spiritually, stumblingly, suppliantly. | |
+5 letters: acoustically, assaultively, autistically, blusteringly, calamitously, despitefully, disgustfully, felicitously, flagitiously, gelatinously, idolatrously, industrially, insightfully, insolubility, irresolutely, jesuitically, juristically, licentiously, meticulously, outlandishly, plausibility, puristically, scripturally, sequentially, solicitously, sprightfully, stridulously, supravitally, sylviculture, unsettlingly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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