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Refreshingly

Definitions: Refreshingly

Refreshingly

Adverb

1. In a manner that relieves fatigue and restores vitality; "the air was refreshingly cool".

2. In a pleasantly novel manner; "she was refreshingly free from shyness".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "refreshingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)



Synonym: Refreshingly

Synonym: refreshfully (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Refreshingly

English words defined with "refreshingly": freshnessnoveltyrefreshfully. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Refreshingly

DomainTitle

Books

  • Beyond the Hay Days: A Refreshingly Simple Guide to Effective Horse Nutrition (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Refreshingly

"Refreshingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Refreshingly" is used about 98 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%9833,072

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Refreshingly

Language Translations for "refreshingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

labende, erquickende. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ristorante (eatery, refreshing, restaurant). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

爽爽として , 爽々として . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さわさわとして. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

efreshinglyray

   

Russian 

  

освежающе. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Refreshingly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "refreshingly" (pronounced rēfre"shinglē)
5-sh i ng l ēastonishingly.
4-i ng l ēaccordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, confusingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frighteningly, frowningly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, strikingly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, warningly, willingly, wittingly.
3-ng l ēgangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Refreshingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-h-i-l-n-r-r-s-y"

-2 letters: refreshing.

-3 letters: ferreling, fingerers, lingerers, reshingle.

-4 letters: errhines, erringly, feelings, feigners, ferrying, fingerer, fleering, fleshier, fleshing, flingers, freshing, greenfly, greenish, greyhens, heelings, herrings, herrying, hygienes, lingerer, refiners, refinery, reflying, refrying, rehinges, resigner, serrying, sheering, shingler, sleigher.

-5 letters: english, errhine, feeling, feigner, felines, ferlies, fernery, fernier, ferrels, ferries, fingers, fishery, fisheye, fleeing, flenser, flesher, fleying, flinger, flyings, freeing, freshen, fresher, freshly, fresnel, fringes, greenly, greisen, greyhen, greyish, gyrenes, heeling, heifers, henries, herries, herring, herself, hingers, hygiene, inheres, leering, liernes, lingers, reefing, reeling, refiles, refiner, refines, refires, reflies, refresh, refries, rehinge, rehires, reliefs, reliers, relines, relying, rerisen, reshine, riflers, riflery, ringers, seeling, selfing, sheerly, shingle, shingly, slinger, syringe, yeelins.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Refreshingly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 66 72 65 73 68 69 6E 67 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    ..-.    .-.    .    ...    ....    ..    -.    --.    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100110 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#102 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#104 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0066 0072 0065 0073 0068 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527172847185747580737891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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