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Definition: Perfectly |
PerfectlyAdverb1. Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right". 2. In a perfect or faultless way; "She performed perfectly on the balance beam"; "spoke English perfectly"; "solved the problem perfectly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "perfectly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: PerfectlySynonyms: absolutely (adv), dead (adv), utterly (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: imperfectly (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Perfection | AdVerb: to perfection; perfectly; Adjective: ad unguem; clean, - as a whistle. |
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Screenplays | I'm perfectly calm Dude (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) Okay, umm, if you ever get bored with your man, it's perfectly okay to picture someone else's head on his body (Nutty Professor II: The Klumps; writing credit: Jerry Lewis; Steve Oedekerk) It's no fun. And no tips After this he'll be a perfectly normal human being (Harvey; writing credit: Mary Chase;) Oh, I'm sure they're perfectly well rounded (James Bond; writing credit: Themes . search . forum . members . store . about) | |
Lyrics | Either I'm wrong or I'm perfectly right every time (I Go To Extremes; performing artist: Billy Joel) And you made it so perfectly clear (From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart; performing artist: Britney Spears) It could have been so perfectly (Crybaby; performing artist: Mariah Carey) | |
Clever | Love is not finding a perfect person, it is seeing an imperfect person perfectly. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Perfectly Legal (2002) 2B Perfectly Honest (2003) Perfectly Fit (1996) To Be Perfectly Frank (1977) | |
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 | This mole has a characteristic "fried egg" appearance. The eccentric papule is a perfectly ordinary nevus. The diagnostic histologic features are found in the macular portion of the mole, particularly at its shoulder - i.e. Where the papule meets the macule. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | The Hubble telescope has snapped this remarkable view of a perfectly "edge-on" galaxy, NGC ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Harry, you are perfectly wonderful!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I know perfectly well that this isn't right, she said, helping him and then herself : but I am wondering what there is about it that isn't right. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | How perfectly beautiful everything looks, Jim!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | It's perfectly simple. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two see each other by wire as they phone--conversations and images transmitted perfectly over new television apparatus. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells are carefully gauged to ensure perfectly uniform ammunition for our fighting men. A converted Midwest auto plant is now producing these shells as efficiently as it turned out parts for. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for the Army. Inspectors are on the alert to reject those which fail to meet requirements. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "I have made it perfectly clear ... That I cannot tell a lie". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Iced Leaves" by Adam Knight Commentary: "After an ice storm, this bush's leaves were covered perfectly with a layer of ice." |
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Charles Dickens | "It's very strange," said Mr. Dick . . . "that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfectly clear." |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. |
Lord Byron | I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. |
Mencius | The compass and square produce perfect circles and squares. By the sages, the human relations are perfectly exhibited. |
Novalis | Character is perfectly educated will. |
Oscar Wilde | It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. |
St. Francis De Sales | Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. |
Sydney Smith | He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. |
William M. Thackeray | Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. |
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John Locke | 1690 | This, if barely so, is rather mockery than relief; and men can never be secure from tyranny, if there be no means to escape it till they are perfectly under it: and therefore it is, that they have not only a right to get out of it, but to prevent it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The conclusion from this reasoning is, that where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely to execute the will of the President, or rather to act in cases in which the executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | But on seeing them together, she became perfectly satisfied |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | It was a perfectly flavourless Ghost |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Oh, perfectly satisfactory |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | I was being perfectly serious, said Arthur |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She was a running mare, perfectly white |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He rolled his cigarette slowly and perfectly, studied it, smoothed it. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And these were all the notions he had concerning that faculty of lying, so perfectly well understood among human creatures |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens |
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Health | Feeling angry or depressed is common and perfectly all right. (references) | |
Some pregnant women with perfectly normal blood sugar levels will occasionally have sugar detected in their urine. (references) | ||
All of the children with LKS appear to be perfectly normal until their first seizure or the start of language problems. (references) | ||
Business | Again, with ownership of the mobile users’ SIM cards and an existing billing infrastructure the mobile operator is perfectly positioned to accept this role as the central body within the m-commerce universe. (references) | |
Travel | Costa Rica | Seafood is perfectly safe when properly cooked but it should never be eaten raw. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OUT-:OF:-:DOORS:, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. I climbed to the top of a mountain one day To see the sun setting in glory, And I thought, as I looked at his vanishing ray, Of a perfectly splendid story. 'Twas about an old man and the ass he bestrode Till the strength of the beast was o'ertested; Then the man would carry him miles on the road Till Neddy was pretty well rested. The moon rising solemnly over the crest Of the hills to the east of my station Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west Like a visible new creation. And I thought of a joke (and I laughed till I cried) Of an idle young woman who tarried About a church-door for a look at the bride, Although 'twas herself that was married. To poets all Nature is pregnant with grand Ideas -- with thought and emotion. I pity the dunces who don't understand The speech of earth, heaven and ocean. Stromboli Smith |
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Dennis Miller | There's nothing I love better than going through a drive-thru window on a cold day, getting that perfectly balanced bag, setting it between my legs and driving away while that mothering heat radiates through my lower extremities. |
Julia Child | If I'm perfectly at ease with what I've done, I'm delighted, and if I'm not very much at ease, then I'm nervous a bit. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | How far the authority given by the Legislature for procuring and establishing sites for naval purposes has been perfectly understood and pursued in the execution admits of some doubt. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | We look back on obstacles avoided and dangers overcome, on expectations more than realized and prosperity perfectly secured. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | This, I think, can not be perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases 'after' the separation of the sections than before. |
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| "Perfectly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.73% of the time. "Perfectly" is used about 4,446 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) | 99.73% | 4,434 | 2,212 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.27% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,446 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "perfectly": i'm perfectly satisfied ♦ it is perfectly suited ♦ it's perfectly ridiculous! ♦ perfectly rough surface ♦ perfectly round ♦ perfectly smooth surface ♦ perfectly well ♦ understand perfectly ♦ you're perfectly right!. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "perfectly": perfectly-flat, perfectly-formed, perfectly-hit, perfectly-judged, perfectly-packaged, perfectly-rounded, perfectly-shaped, perfectly-sighted, perfectly-struck, perfectly-surviving, perfectly-tailored, perfectly-targeted, perfectly-timed, perfectly-tuned, perfectly-weighted. | |
Ending with "perfectly": over-perfectly. | |
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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 "perfectly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | heeltemal (at, at all, entirely, quite, wholly). (various references) | |
Albanian | plotësisht (absolutely, all, at large, clear, cold, completely, dead, diametrically, entirely, fully, heartily, hollow, large, neck and crop, out and out, outright, plain, plenty, Plumb, properly, quite, sheer, sound, stark, thoroughly, through and through, throughly, to the full extent, to the ground, totally, up, up to the hilt, utterly, well, wholly, wide, widely), përsosmërisht, tamam (due, even, exactly, flat, just, just the same, precise, precisely, sharp, very), në mënyrë të përkryer (in apple-pie order), krejtësisht (all, altogether, cap-a-pie, completely, entirely, fundamentally, hard, hollow, purely, quite, through and through, to a frazzle, utterly). (various references) | |
Arabic | تماما (all, all right, alright, altogether, completely, decidedly, diametrically, enough, entirely, exactly, fairly, fully, in full, just, ok, okay, okey, plumb, precisely, properly, quite, quite so, right, sharp, simply, smack, so far so good, stark, stock, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, very, well, wholly, wide), على نحو كامل, على نحو تام (quite), باتقان (nicely, skilfully, skillfully). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвършено (absolutely, completely, ideally, out and out, quite, stark, to perfection, utterly), отлично (capitally, excellently, famously, fine, first rate, par excellence, perfectly well, primely, to perfection, well enough), напълно (absolutely, all, altogether, amply, clean, completely, dead, entirely, every bit, fairly, fully, hollow, intimately, largely, out and out, outright, quite, richly, sheer, spang, stark, stiff, thoroughly, through, throughly, to the full, to the letter, to the wide, totally, utterly, well, whole-hog, wholly, wide, without reserve), перфектно (to perfection). (various references) | |
Catalan | perfectament. (various references) | |
Chinese | 完美 (perfect, perfection), 完善地. (various references) | |
Czech | naprosto (absolutely, altogether, dead, entirely, flat, fully, heartily, quite, sheer, to the hilt, totally, utterly), dokonale (from a to z, ideally, Pat, quite), bezvadnì, absolutnì (absolutely, dead, flat). (various references) | |
Danish | pløjning med renskåren fure (ploughed field set up with perfectly straight furrow slices), ideelt stift-plastisk materiale (perfectly plastic-rigid material), ideelt elastisk-plastisk materiale (perfectly plastic-elastic material), fuldstaendigt ledende plan jord (perfectly conducting plane earth), fuldstaendigt ledende plan (perfectly conducting plane), fuldstændigt ledende overflade (perfectly conducting surface), fuldstændig substituerbar valuta (perfectly substitutable currencies), fuldstændig ru overflade (perfectly rough surface), fuldstændig glat overflade (perfectly smooth surface). (various references) | |
Dutch | perfect-geleidende vlakke aarde (perfectly conducting plane earth), perfect-geleidend vlak (perfectly conducting plane), particuliere automatische centrale (perfectly conducting surface), volkomen star-plastisch materiaal (perfectly plastic-rigid material), volkomen ruw oppervlak (perfectly rough surface), volkomen glad oppervlak (perfectly smooth surface), veld geploegd met volmaakt rechte ploegstroken (ploughed field set up with perfectly straight furrow slices), onderling perfect substitueerbare munteenheden (perfectly substitutable currencies), ideaal ruw oppervlak (perfectly rough surface), ideaal glad oppervlak (perfectly smooth surface), ideaal elasto-plastisch materiaal (perfectly plastic-elastic material). (various references) | |
Esperanto | perfekte. (various references) | |
Finnish | täydellisesti (completely, entirely, fully, wholly), kerrassaan (altogether, entirely, simply), aivan (altogether, at all, entirely, exactly, fully, just, quite, very, wholly). (various references) | |
Flemish | perfect. (various references) | |
French | parfaitement. (various references) | |
French Canadian | parfaitement. (various references) | |
Galician | perfectamente. (various references) | |
German | perfekt (complete, perfect, perfect tense, settled, thorough, ultimate). (various references) | |
Greek | τέλεια. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מאה אחוז (completely, one hundred per cent), על בריו (completely), בשלמות (completely, entirely, fully, wholly), בהצטינות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tökéletesen (clean, dead, from hub to tire up to the hub, on a dead level, sublimely, to the nines). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fullkomlega. (various references) | |
Indonesian | dengan sempurna. (various references) | |
Italian | perfettamente (full). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | きかん気 (accurately, brisk, clearly, close, creak, daring, distinctly, energetic, exactly, intense, lively, plainly, precisely, squeak, tight, tightly, unyielding), 全く (completely, entirely, indeed, really, truly, wholly), ばい菌 (a sure thing, abruptly, bacteria, be dry, disconnected, disperse, divorced, flop, germ, in drops, in pieces, loose, only, plump, properly, right on the mark, rustle, rustling, scattered, suddenly, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to expose, to kill, to lay open, to murder, to take to pieces, unexpectedly, with a bang, with a clash, with a thud), 丸っきり (completely, just as if), 丸っ切り (completely, just as if), ちゃんこ料理 (exactly, Japanese vest, padded sleeveless kimono jacket, promptly, properly, regularly, sumo food, sword fight, testicles). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きちっと (exactly), まったく (completely, entirely, indeed, really, truly, wholly), まるっきり (completely, just as if), ばっちり (a sure thing, properly, right on the mark), ちゃんと (exactly, properly). (various references) | |
Korean | 완전하게 (Completely, integrally, utterly). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | perfekt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erfectlypay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | perfeitamente (thoroughly). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | perfeitamente. (various references) | |
Romanian | perfect (a1, absolute, accomplished, all right, blameless, classic, consummate, faultless, flawless, good enough, okay, out and out, perfect, pure, quite so, right-down, ripe, that's fine, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, tiptop, total, unimpeachable). (various references) | |
Russian | совершенно (absolutely, at all, clean, clear, completely, down to the ground, entirely, outright, quite, stark, thoroughly, through and through, throughout, utterly), вполне (altogether, completely, fully, hollow, out and out, outright, plenty, pretty, quite, richly, thoroughly, throughly, to a nicety), отлично (admirably, excellently, famously, well, well done). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | savršeno (thoroughly). (various references) | |
Spanish | perfectamente (faultlessly, ideally). (various references) | |
Swedish | perfekt (consummate, essential, mint, perfect, pukka, the perfect tense, tiptop, to a turn). (various references) | |
Tswana | sentle (well). (various references) | |
Turkish | tamamen (absolutely, all, altogether, at large, bang, bang on, chock, clean, clear, completely, dead, definitely, downright, entirely, exactly, fair, fully, heart and soul, hollow, holo-, hopelessly, in the highest degree, in toto, neck and crop, off, out and out, outright, plenty, precious, properly, quite, richly, roundly, sheer, simply, staring, stark, thoroughly, thro, through, through and through, thru, thru and thru, up to the hilt, utterly, well, whole, wholly, wide), tıkır tıkır (at a rattling pace, rattling), mükemmel bir şekilde, kusursuzca. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чудово (adorably, capitally, finely, ideally, incomparably, nobly, noteworthily, primely, remarkably, splendid, stunningly, super-duper, very good, wonder, wow), цілком (absolutely, all, all in all, all of, all out, altogether, at all, bodily, broad, clean, clear, completely, duly, en bloc, entirely, fairly, full, fully, hollow, nicely, outright, pure, purely, quite, richly, soundly, thoroughly, well, wholly), відмінно (famously, nicely, well). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hoàn toàn (all, all right, all-in-all, altogether, backbone, clean, completely, consummate, due, full, fully, heartily, hilt, hollow, inch, out-and-out, outright, profound, purely, quite, regular, sheer, stark, thorough, thoroughly, undivided, utter, utterly, wholly), hoàn hảo (impeccable, perfect). (various references) | |
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| Language | Date | Source | 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Autoi gar akribwV oidate oti h hmera kuriou wV klepthV en nukti outwV ercetai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ipsi enim diligenter scitis quia dies Domini sicut fur in nocte ita veniet |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Forðy ge cnawað swa wel swa we þæt Hælendes dæg sceal cuman swa nihtlic þeof. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For ye silf witen diligentli, that the dai of the Lord schal come, as a theef in the niyt. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For ye youre selves knowe parfectly that the daye of the Lorde shall come even as a thefe in the nyght. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. |
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| Language | 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Kay kamo nasayud na pag-ayo nga ang adlaw sa Ginoo moabut ra unya sama sa kawatan sa kagabhion. |
| Croatian | Ta i sami dobro znate da Dan Gospodnji dolazi baš kao kradljivac u noæi. |
| Danish | thi I vide selv grant, at Herrens Dag kommer som en Tyv om Natten. |
| Dutch | Want gij weet zelven zeer wel, dat de dag des Heeren alzo zal komen, gelijk een dief in den nacht. |
| Finnish | sillä itse te varsin hyvin tiedätte, että Herran päivä tulee niinkuin varas yöllä. |
| French | Car vous savez bien vous-mêmes que le jour du Seigneur viendra comme un voleur dans la nuit. |
| German | denn ihr selbst wisset gewiß, daß der Tag des HERRN wird kommen wie ein Dieb in der Nacht. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebab kalian sendiri tahu dengan jelas bahwa Hari kedatangan Tuhan itu akan tiba seperti pencuri datang pada malam hari. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena kamu sendiri mengetahui dengan secukupnya bahwa Hari Tuhan itu datang seperti pencuri pada malam. |
| Italian | infatti voi ben sapete che come un ladro di notte, così verrà il giorno del Signore. |
| Korean | 주 의 날 이 밤 에 도 적 같 이 이 를 줄 을 너 희 자 신 이 자 세 히 앎 이 라 |
| Latvian | Jo jûs paði labi zinât, ka Kunga diena nâks tâpat kâ zaglis naktî. |
| Maori | E matau pu ana hoki koutou, tera e haere mai te ra o te Ariki, ano he tahae i te po. |
| Norwegian | I vet jo selv grant at Herrens dag kommer som en tyv om natten. |
| Rumanian | Pentrucq voi knwivq wtiyi foarte bine cq ziua Domnului va veni ca un hoy noaptea. |
| Russian | ЙВП УБНЙ ЧЩ ДПУФПЧЕТОП ЪОБЕФЕ, ЮФП ДЕОШ зПУРПДЕОШ ФБЛ РТЙДЕФ, ЛБЛ ФБФШ ОПЮША. |
| Shuar | Ni Tátintri Júnis átin nékarme. Kiritniunam Kasá shuar kasamkataj tusa Tátatna nu nekaachminiaiti. Núnisan Nákatsuk pujuiniai Uunt Kristu tsawantri jeattawai. |
| Swahili | Maana ninyi wenyewe mwajua kwamba Siku ya Bwana itakuja kama mwizi ajavyo usiku. |
| Swedish | Ty I veten själva nogsamt att Herrens dag kommer såsom en tjuv om natten. |
| Uma | Apa' ni'inca moto ompi': hewa karataa topanako ngkabengia, wae wo'o mpai' Eo Karataa Pue', konce mpai' ihi' dunia' nakaratai. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "perfectly": imperfectly. (additional references) | |
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"Perfectly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perfecty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "perfectly" (pronounced per"fuktlē or per"fuklē) |
| 4 | -k t l ē | correctly, directly, distinctly, exactly, imperfectly, incorrectly, indirectly, strictly, succinctly. |
| 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, costly, courtly, covertly, currently, curtly, decently, defiantly, definitely, deftly, deliberately, delicately, desperately, devoutly, differently, difficultly, diligently, discreetly, dishonestly, jointly, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, dispassionately, disproportionately, earnestly, efficiently, elaborately, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, excellently, expertly, explicitly, exquisitely, extravagantly, exultantly, faintly, fervently, firstly, flagrantly, flamboyantly, flatly, fluently, forthrightly, fortnightly, fortunately, fraudulently, frequently, gently, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, hesitantly, honestly, hotly, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, imminently, impatiently, implicitly, importantly, imprudently, inaccurately, inadequately, inadvertently, inappropriately, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, indefinitely, independently, indignantly, 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, motley, neatly, negligently, nightly, nonchalantly, obediently, overtly, partly, passionately, patently, patiently, 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, stridently, stringently, subsequently, sufficiently, sweetly, swiftly, tacitly, tightly, transparently, triumphantly, ultimately, unfortunately, unjustly, unpleasantly, unsightly, urgently, valiantly, vastly, vehemently, violently, virulently, Whitely. |
| 4 | -u k l ē | alchemically, anatomically, athletically, chemically, medically, paradoxically, practically, typically. |
| 3 | -k l ē | academically, acoustically, aerobically, aerodynamically, aesthetically, algebraically, alphabetically, analytically, angelically, apologetically, artistically, astronomically, authentically, automatically, basically, biologically, biweekly, blankly, briskly, brusquely, categorically, characteristically, chronologically, classically, cosmetically, darkly, democratically, demographically, diplomatically, dogmatically, domestically, dramatically, drastically, ecologically, economically, ecstatically, emphatically, energetically, enthusiastically, erratically, ethnically, euphemistically, fantastically, forensically, frankly, generically, genetically, geometrically, geopolitically, graphically, grotesquely, heroically, hypothetically, hysterically, ideologically, idiotically, ironically, likely, linguistically, logically, logistically, lyrically, mechanically, meekly, metaphorically, microscopically, musically, newsweekly, numerically, obliquely, optically, organically, pathologically, phonetically, physiologically, poetically, prickly, prolifically, psychologically, publically, publicly, quickly, radically, realistically, rhetorically, rhythmically, sarcastically, sickly, sleekly, slickly, sparkly, specifically, sporadically, starkly, stoically, strategically, stylistically, symmetrically, synthetically, systematically, systemically, terrifically, thematically, theologically, thickly, tragically, uncharacteristically, undiplomatically, uniquely, unlikely, unrealistically, vertically, volcanically, weakly, weekly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-l-p-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: erectly, perfect, peytrel, prefect, prelect, reflect. | |
-3 letters: celery, creepy, crepey, ectype, fleecy, freely, lefter, pelter, peltry, pertly, petrel, recept, refect, refelt, reflet, retype, telfer, tepefy, tercel, yclept, yelper. | |
-4 letters: cleft, clepe, clept, creel, creep, crepe, crept, crepy, crypt, elect, erect, ferly, feyer, fleer, fleet, flyer, flyte, leery, lefty, leper, lycee, peery, peter, plyer. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-l-p-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: imperfectly. | |
+3 letters: perfectively, respectfully. | |
+5 letters: perfectibility. | |
| 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. | |
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