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Definition: Motley |
MotleyAdjective1. Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity); "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known as social"- I.A.Richards. 2. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert,"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies". Noun1. A collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders". 2. A garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume). 3. A multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England. Verb1. Make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu". 2. Make motley; color with different colors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "motley" was first used: sometime around 1380. (references) |
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Literature | Motley Men of motley. Licensed fools; so called because of their dress. "Motley is the only wear." Shakespeare: As You Like It, ii. 7. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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John Lothrop Motley (April 15, 1814 - May 29, 1877), American historian, son of Thomas Motley, was born at Dorchester (now a part of Boston), Massachusetts, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He then studied at Göttingen and Berlin, becoming a friend of Bismarck at Göttingen, and after a period of European travel returned in 1834 to America, where he continued his legal studies.In 1837 he married Mary Benjamin (d. 1874), a sister of Park Benjamin, and in 1839 he published anonymously a novel entitled Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial. In 1841 he entered the diplomatic service as secretary of legation in Russia, but resigned his post within three months. Returning to America, he soon entered definitely upon a literary career. Besides contributing various historical and critical essays to the North American Review, including a remarkable essay on the Polity of the Puritans, he published in 1849, again anonymously, a second novel, entitled Merry Mount, a Romance of the Massachusetts Colony.
About 1846 the project of writing a history of the Netherlands, in particular the period of the United Provinces, had begun to take shape in his mind, and he had already done a large amount of work on this subject when, finding the materials at his disposal in the United States inadequate, he went to Europe in 1851. The next five years were spent at Dresden, Brussels and the Hague in investigation of the archives, which resulted in 1856 in the publication of The Rise of the Dutch Republic, which became very popular. It speedily passed through many editions, was translated into French, and also into Dutch, German and Russian.
In 1860 Motley published the first two volumes of its continuation, The United Netherlands. This work was on a larger scale, and embodied the results of a still greater amount of original research. It was brought down to the truce of 1609 by two additional volumes, published in 1867. In 1861, just after the Civil War had broken out in America, Motley wrote two letters to The Times defending the Federal position, and these letters, afterwards reprinted as a pamphlet entitled Causes of the Civil War in America, made a favourable impression on President Lincoln.
Partly owing to this essay, Motley was appointed United States minister to Austria in 1861, a position which he filled with great success until his resignation in 1867. Two years later he was sent to represent his country in London, but in November 1870 he was recalled by President Grant. After a short visit to the Netherlands, he again took up his residence in England, where the Life and Death of John Barneveld appeared in two volumes in 1874. Ill health now began to interfere with his literary work, and he died at Frampton Court, near Dorchester, Dorset, leaving three daughters.
The merits of Motley as an historian are undeniably great. He has told the story of a stirring period in the history of the world with full attention to the character of the actors and strict fidelity to the vivid details of the action. But it may safely be said that his tale is best where most unvarnished, and probably no writer of the same rank has owed less to the mere sparkle of highly polished literary style.
An excellent edition of his historical works was published in nine volumes in London in 1903-1904. See the Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, edited by GW Curtis (New York, 1889); OW Holmes, John Lothrop Motley, a Memoir (Boston, 1878); MD Conway, Biographical Introduction to The Rise of the Dutch Republic (London, 1896); and John Lothrop Motley and his Family: Further Letters and Records (1910), edited by his daughter, Mrs Susan St John Mildmay.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Motley refers to the traditional costume of the Court jester or the Harlequin character in Commedia dell'arte. The latter wears a patchwork of red, green, and blue diamonds that is still a fashion motif.The word motley is thought by the Oxford English Dictionary to be cognate with medley, although the unrelated mottled has also contributed to the meaning. The word is most commonly used as an adjective or noun, but is also seen as a verb and adverb.
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Motley is a city located in Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 585.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.6 km² (1.4 mi²). 3.4 km² (1.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 5.04% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 585 people, 258 households, and 167 families residing in the city. The population density is 171.1/km² (442.7/mi²). There are 270 housing units at an average density of 79.0/km² (204.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.95% White, 0.17% African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.34% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.17% from other races, and 1.20% from two or more races. 2.05% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 258 households out of which 31.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.7% are married couples living together, 19.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.9% are non-families. 31.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.25 and the average family size is 2.73. In the city the population is spread out with 27.7% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 24.8% from 25 to 44, 18.6% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 33 years. For every 100 females there are 82.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 75.5 males. The median income for a household in the city is $23,438, and the median income for a family is $29,659. Males have a median income of $24,063 versus $18,824 for females. The per capita income for the city is $12,220. 18.9% of the population and 19.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 31.9% are under the age of 18 and 17.1% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Motley, Minnesota."
Synonyms: MotleySynonyms: assorted (adj), miscellaneous (adj), mixed (adj), multicolor (adj), multicolored (adj), multicolour (adj), multicoloured (adj), painted (adj), particolored (adj), particoloured (adj), piebald (adj), pied (adj), sundry(a) (adj), varicolored (adj), varicoloured (adj), assortment (n), miscellanea (n), miscellany (n), mixed bag (n), mixture (n), potpourri (n), variety (n), parti-color (v), variegate (v), vary (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Humorist | Buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass; fool. |
Mixture | Adjective: mixed; Verb: implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous; motley; (variegated); miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate; miscible. |
Multiformity | Adjective: polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous, multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of; of every description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne; and what not? de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Motley |
| English words defined with "motley": assorted ♦ farrago ♦ hodgepodge, hotchpotch ♦ melange, mingle-mangle, miscellaneous, mishmash, mixed ♦ oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum ♦ parti-color, Party-coated ♦ ragbag ♦ sundry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "motley": butt rock ♦ Canonicals, Corneille d'Esope ♦ Gueux ♦ JESTER ♦ Wailing-place, Jews'. (references) |
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Screenplays | Mr Motley, we have rights here (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Man in Motley (1916) Man in Motley (1915) The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976) | |
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 | A motley mass at the Sunday morning market, Manague[sic], Nicaragua, C.A. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Willard Motley. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Decimus Junius Juvenal | All the doings of mankind, their wishes, fears, anger, pleasures, joys, and varied pursuits, form the motley subject of my book. |
John L. Motley | Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Nothing could be more fantastic and more motley than this band |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears. The widow-queen of Portugal Had an audacious jester Who entered the confessional Disguised, and there confessed her. "Father," she said, "thine ear bend down -- My sins are more than scarlet: I love my fool -- blaspheming clown, And common, base-born varlet." "Daughter," the mimic priest replied, "That sin, indeed, is awful: The church's pardon is denied To love that is unlawful. "But since thy stubborn heart will be For him forever pleading, Thou'dst better make him, by decree, A man of birth and breeding." She made the fool a duke, in hope With Heaven's taboo to palter; Then told a priest, who told the Pope, Who damned her from the altar! Barel Dort |
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| "Motley" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 74.19% of the time. "Motley" is used about 93 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 74.19% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.13% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.68% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "motley" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Motley | Last name | 5,000 | 2,628 |
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1. Motley, MN (city, FIPS 44422) |
Expressions using "motley": Man of motley ♦ motley collection ♦ Motley County ♦ motley multicolor culticolour multicolored multicoloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured ♦ wear motley. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "motley": motley-haired, Motley-minded, motley-panelled. | |
Ending with "motley": ex-motley. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "motley"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | popuri (medley, olio), larush (variegated), laraman (harlequin, piebald, pied, Pinto, spotty), lara-lara (mottled, party-colored, party-coloured, patchwork, tabby), laragan (party-colored, party-coloured, pied, spotted, variegated), i shkartisur, i llojllojshëm (miscellaneous), gjëra të ndryshme (gallimaufry, sundries). (various references) | |
Arabic | متنوع (assorted, different, diverse, diversified, heterogeneous, manifold, miscellaneous, multifarious, omnifarious, several, sundry, variant, varied, various), متنافر الألوان, متعدد الألوان (fancy, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, polychromatic, polychromic, varicolored, versicolored, versicoloured), مؤلف من عناصر مختلفة, نسيج متعدد الألوان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смесица (alloy, amalgam, farrago, gallimaufry, gumbo, intermixture, mash, melange, mess, miscellany, mixture, olio, omnium gatherum, patchwork), разнороден (assorted, discrete, heterogeneous, manifold, miscellaneous, mixed, promiscuous, raggle-taggle, scratch), разноцветен (multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), шарен (chequered, medley, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, roan, variegated, versicolored, versicoloured), пъстър костюм на шут, пъстър (chequered, dapple, fancy, freckled, medley, mottled, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, roan, skewbald, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), писан (destined, many-colored, written). (various references) | |
Chinese | "颜六色 (colorful, colourful), 斑駮 (mottled). (various references) | |
Czech | strakatý (brindled, mottled, piebald, pied, skewbald, speckled), pestrý (bright, brightly colored, brightly coloured, chequered, colorful, colourful, fanciful, gaily coloured, gaudy, gay, multifarious, pied, varied, variegated). (various references) | |
Farsi | مختلط (Medley), لباس چهل تکه , لباس رنگارنگ دلقک ها, امیخته (Medley, Zygose), رنگارنگ (Colorful, Kaleidoscopic, Medley, Multicolored, Piebald, Pied, Varied). (various references) | |
Finnish | kirjava seura (motley crowd). (various references) | |
French | habit bigarré, hétéroclite, collection de hétéroclite, bigarré (mottled), bariolé. (various references) | |
German | zusammengewürfelt (scratch), scheckig (blotchy, brindle, brindly, dappled, gaudy, patchy, piebald, skewbald, spotted). (various references) | |
Greek | παρδαλόσ (brindled, dapple, dappled, piebald, pied, roan), ποικιλόχρουσ, ποικίλοσ (diverse, miscellaneous, varicolored, varicoloured, varied, various), ετερογενής (heterogeneous), ανακατεμένος, ανομοιόμορφοσ (patchy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | טלוא (patched, speckled), סס'ו י (colourful, gorgeous, multicolored, multicoloured, picturesque, varicolored, variegated). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zagyvaság (havers, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, olio), tarkabarka (chequered, kaleidoscopic, medley, parti-coloured), zavaros (ambiguous, bleary, blurred, chaotic, cloudy, confused, feculent, fustian, haywire, hugger-mugger, incoherent, indistinct, intricate, muddled, muddling, muddy, obscure, puddly, rambling, roily, troubled, troublous, turbid), zagyva (devoid of sense, diffuse, indigested, jumbled, macaronic, medley, muddy), vegyes (assorted, composite, farraginous, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed fat and lean, pot-pourri, promiscuous, sundries, sundry), bohócruha (harlequin coat). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pancaragam (all kind of, heterogene). (various references) | |
Italian | miscuglio (admixture, blend, brew, compound, concoction, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, mishmashes, mixture), screziato (dappled, streaked), eterogeneo (heterogeneous, miscellaneous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 寄り合い所帯 (motley crew, people living together). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | よりあいじょたい (motley crew, people living together). (various references) | |
Manx | brigganaght, brigganagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otleymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | multicor (multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured), mistura heterogénea, matizado (streaked, variegated), manta de retalhos, variegado (varied, variegated), de várias cores (chequered, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured). (various references) | |
Romanian | multicolor (fancy, many-colored, many-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), pestriţ (dapple, gay, harlequin, many-colored, many-coloured, medley, mottled, particolored, particoloured, pied, speckled, spotted, variegated), harababurã (confusion, fuss, glory-hole, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, muddle, pease meal, pell mell, turmoil, welter), divers (different, diverse, medley, multifarious, multitudinous, several, sundry, varied, various), dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, riot, riots, rough, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, upset, welter), de diferite culori, amestecat (amalgamate, combined, divers, involved, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, mobbish, promiscuous, scratchy, so so, sundry, varied, various), amestecãturã (congeries, hotchpotch, mash, medley, patchwork, pell mell, pie, potpourri, promiscuity, puddle). (various references) | |
Russian | пестрый (brindled, chequered, dappled, jazzy, medley, parti-colored, particoloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, tabby, variegated). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šarolik (variegated), šareno odelo dvorskih budala. (various references) | |
Spanish | multicolor (candy-striped, many-colored, many-coloured, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, rainbow), vario (miscellaneous, various), traje de colores, botarga, abigarramiento (variegation), abigarrado (Brindle, mottled, particolored, particoloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references) | |
Swedish | narrdräkt, brokig (brindled, chequered, dappled, gaudy, kaleidoscopic, particolored, particoloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, scratch, varied, variegated). (various references) | |
Turkish | uyumsuz karışım, renk renk (multicolored, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), rengârenk giysi, rengârenk (colorful, colourful, harlequin, lithochromatic, multicolored, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, splashy, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), karışık (adulterated, blended, calico, chequered, combined, complicated, composite, compound, confused, deep, disconcerted, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hybrid, inexplicit, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, kinky, knotted, knotty, mazy, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, obscure, out of square, promiscuous, turbid, unclassified, unsized, woolly, wooly), çeşit çeşit (assorted, multifarious, various). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | різнорідний (dissimilar, medley, mixed, promiscuous), різнобарвний (painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, variegated), блазень (antic, aper, banana, buffoon, clown, harlequin, jester, mountebank, owl-glass, tomfool, zany), попурі (medley, mosaic, olio, pasticcio, pastiche, potpourri). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sặc sỡ (flamboyant, tinty), pha tạp (bastard, miscellaneous), nhiều m u pha tạp, g"n hợp. (various references) | |
Welsh | cymysgliw, brith (brindled, gray, grey, indistinct, mottled, speckled, vague). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | mot. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "motley": motleyer, motleyest, motleys. (additional references) | |
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"Motley" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gotley, Gottleib, hotley, Martley, matily, matley, Matvey, Mawley, melty, metey, Methley, Metteya, mitle, moley, Molye, montly, Mortley, mosely, mostle, motely, motey, mothly, motle, motlee, Motler, motlet, motleyed, motly, mottler, mottley, Moulsey, Mouly, mozley, Mtolo, muley, mutley, Mutloe, Mutlu, mutly, muttley, Potley, Totley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "motley" (pronounced mÄ"tlē) |
| 4 | -Ä" t l ē | hotly. |
| 3 | -t l ē | abruptly, absolutely, abundantly, accidently, accurately, acutely, adamantly, adequately, adroitly, affectionately, alternately, apparently, appropriately, approximately, aptly, ardently, arrogantly, astutely, blatantly, bluntly, brightly, brilliantly, coherently, commensurately, compassionately, competently, complacently, completely, concomitantly, concretely, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, currently, curtly, decently, defiantly, definitely, deftly, deliberately, delicately, desperately, devoutly, differently, difficultly, diligently, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, jointly, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, dispassionately, disproportionately, distinctly, earnestly, efficiently, elaborately, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, exactly, excellently, expertly, explicitly, exquisitely, extravagantly, exultantly, faintly, fervently, firstly, flagrantly, flamboyantly, flatly, fluently, forthrightly, fortnightly, fortunately, fraudulently, frequently, gently, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, hesitantly, honestly, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, imminently, impatiently, imperfectly, implicitly, importantly, imprudently, inaccurately, inadequately, inadvertently, inappropriately, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, incorrectly, indefinitely, independently, indignantly, indirectly, indiscriminately, inefficiently, ineptly, infinitely, infrequently, inherently, innately, innocently, inordinately, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intently, intermittently, intimately, intricately, legitimately, leniently, lightly, magnificently, manifestly, militantly, minutely, moderately, modestly, mostly, neatly, negligently, nightly, nonchalantly, obediently, overtly, partly, passionately, patently, patiently, perfectly, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, politely, portly, predominantly, presently, priestly, privately, prominently, promptly, proportionately, prudently, pungently, quaintly, quietly, raptly, recently, reluctantly, remotely, resolutely, reverently, rightly, robustly, saintly, secretly, separately, shortly, significantly, silently, slightly, smartly, softly, sprightly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, stridently, stringently, subsequently, succinctly, sufficiently, sweetly, swiftly, tacitly, tightly, transparently, triumphantly, ultimately, unfortunately, unjustly, unpleasantly, unsightly, urgently, valiantly, vastly, vehemently, violently, virulently, Whitely. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-m-o-t-y" | |
-1 letter: motel, motey. | |
-2 letters: elmy, melt, mole, molt, moly, mote, tole, tome, ylem. | |
-3 letters: elm, let, ley, lot, lye, mel, met, mol, mot, ole, tel, toe, tom, toy, tye, yet, yom. | |
-4 letters: el, em, et, lo, me, mo, my, oe, om, oy, to, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-m-o-t-y" | |
+1 letter: motleys. | |
+2 letters: methoxyl, modestly, moltenly, momently, motherly, motleyer, mylonite, remotely, tomalley. | |
+3 letters: allometry, contumely, emotively, etymology, hemolytic, leukotomy, lobectomy, metrology, molybdate, monostely, motleyest, myelocyte, myelomata, mylonites, solemnity, teleonomy, timeously, tomalleys. | |
+4 letters: completely, complexity, coulometry, cyclometer, cyclostome, deployment, employment, entomology, hematology, hemelytron, immodestly, impolitely, impotently, lumpectomy, lymphocyte, melanocyte, methylator, methyldopa, moderately, molybdates, monetarily, motorcycle, myeloblast, myelocytes, myelocytic, myelopathy, mythologer, nematology, nympholept, phlebotomy, plyometric, polytheism, poultrymen, protoxylem, temporally, terpolymer, tiresomely, toilsomely, tomfoolery, xylotomies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Frequency 14. Cities 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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