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Definition: Redly |
RedlyAdverb1. Displaying a red color; "the forge belched redly at the sky"-Adria Langley. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "redly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
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| "Blurred Sunset" by James Stephen Windsor Commentary: "This photo was taken through a steamed window, towards the sun setting redly in the distance. Not too impressive in itself, but the colours in it are pretty good [in my opinion]." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The air and the sky darkened and through them the sun shone redly, and there was a raw sting in the air. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Redly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Redly" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
redly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "redly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kuq pak. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чернено. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vörösen. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edlyray.(various references) | |
Russian | красновато. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | crveno. (various references) | |
Swedish | rödaktigt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "redly": assuredly, bewilderedly, disorderedly, flusteredly, measuredly, preparedly, retiredly, sacredly, tiredly, unmanneredly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "redly" (pronounced 'Red"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: dyer, lyre, rely, yeld. | |
-2 letters: del, dey, dry, dye, eld, led, ley, lye, red, rye. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, el, er, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: byrled, dearly, direly, ridley, rudely, yodler. | |
+2 letters: already, crudely, deerfly, delayer, devilry, dryable, elderly, layered, lyrated, orderly, pedlary, pedlery, readily, reedily, relayed, ridleys, tiredly, weirdly, yielder, yodeler, yodlers. | |
+3 letters: adultery, alderfly, ardently, badgerly, bladdery, bouldery, credibly, cursedly, curvedly, cylinder, dapperly, defrayal, delayers, delivery, delusory, demurely, deviltry, diablery, dialyser, dialyzer, directly, dreamily, drearily, dressily, drollery, elytroid, fervidly, forcedly, forelady, forkedly, friendly, gorgedly, greedily, heraldry, hydrogel, hydromel, kaleyard, lawyered, legendry, lyrebird, markedly, modernly, parlayed, parleyed, peddlery, raggedly, readably, readerly, recycled, redeploy, repandly, replayed, restyled, ruggedly, sacredly, saddlery, shrewdly, soldiery, tenderly, trendily, underlay, variedly, yielders, yodelers, yodeller. | |
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