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Definition: Respectfully |
RespectfullyAdverb1. In a respectful manner; "might I respectfully suggest to the Town Council that they should adopt a policy of masterly inactivity?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "respectfully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Synonym: RespectfullySynonym: with all respect (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: disrespectfully (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Respectfully |
| English words defined with "respectfully": deferentially ♦ with all respect. (references) |
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Screenplays | As their father and the head of this household, I respectfully submit that-- (Wedding Rehearsal; writing credit: Lajos Bir; George Grossmith) Respectfully submit! (Wedding Rehearsal; writing credit: Lajos Bir; George Grossmith) | |
Lyrics | I see to thee respectfully (Upside Down; performing artist: Diana Ross) Respectfully I see to thee (Upside Down; performing artist: Diana Ross) | |
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 | Portland Harbor. "To the Citizens of Portland this picture is most respectfully dedicated by the publishers, Smith Brothers and Co." Painted by J. W. Hill.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | This plate is respectfully dedicated to all the butchers in the United States by their obt. Sert. Chrr. Wispart. in honour of our Republican Governor Simon Snyder.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chicora the original name of Carolina. Respectfully dedicated to the patriotic ladies of the Southern Confederated States of North American.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | General Tom Thumb's grand wedding march, composed by E. Mack. Respectfully dedicated to General Tom Thumb & lady / T. (?) Sinclair lith., Phila.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | To the grand Army of the Republic this print of our old commander General U.S. Grant is respectfully dedicated.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | View of Pottsville Taken from Sharp Mountain & respectfully dedicated to the enterprising citizens of the Coal Region by J.R. Smith / / J.R. Smith, junr. del. ; J.R. Smith, senr. sculpt.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | England and America. The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic ship Resolute - December 16th, 1856, to whom this engraving is by special permission respectfully dedicated by her obedient servants, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. / painted by W. Simpso.Credit: Library of Congress. | | View of Pottsville Taken from Sharp Mountain & respectfully dedicated to the enterprising citizens of the Coal Region by J.R. Smith / / J.R. Smith, junr. del. ; J.R. Smith, senr. sculpt.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri, at Gibralter [sic], Aug. 26th, 1843 To Captn. Sir George Sartorius and the Officers of the H.M.S. Malabar--this print is respectfully dedicated by their obedient servant, Edmund Fry / / drawn by.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace." Let no man underrate the abiding power of the British Empire and Common-wealth. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | He was on foot, and after looking very respectfully at her, looked with most unfeigned satisfaction at her companion. |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I followed respectfully behind. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Javert respectfully saluted the mayor, who had his back towards him. |
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Health | Treating parental concerns seriously and respectfully is important to the child, to the family, and to your relationship with them as a health care provider. (references) | |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Your attention is again respectfully invited to the defect which exists in the judicial system of the United States. |
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| "Respectfully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Respectfully" is used about 176 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% | 176 | 23,410 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "respectfully": i remain respectfully yours ♦ respectfully yours ♦ respectfully yours! ♦ yours respectfully ♦ your's respectfully. 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 |
respectfully | 9 |
as follow respectfully | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "respectfully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me respekt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بإحترام, بشعور من الإجلال. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | почтително (with respect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 恭敬地, 尊敬 (respect, revere, reverence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zdvořile (civilly, courteously, nicely, politely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kunnioittavasti (respectfully youryours, very truly yours, with respect, yours faithfully, yours sincerely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hochachtungsvoll (faithfully, faithfully yours, sincerely, sincerely yours, yours faithfully, yours sincerely, yours truly), ehrbietig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | με σεβασμό (deferential, deferentially, respectful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tiszteletteljesen (deferentially, reverently). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | con la massima stima. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 謹"で (humbly, reverently). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うやうやしく (reverentially), ふして (bowing down, humbly), つつし"で (humbly, reverently), じし (private secretary, the next child), ていさいよく (decently, tastefully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 중하게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | espectfullyray respeitosamente. (various references) respectuos (deferent, deferential, dutiful, dutifully, observant, respectful, reverent), cu respect (regardfully, reverently). (various references) почтительно (worshipfully). (various references) s puno poštovanja. (various references) respetuosamente (dutifully). (various references) respektfullt. (various references) saygılı bir biçimde, hürmetle (fearfully). (various references) шанобливо, ввічливо (affably, blandly, civilly, correctly, obligingly, politely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | honeste, honorifice, reverenter. (various references) |
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Words ending with "respectfully": disrespectfully. (additional references) | |
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"Respectfully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: respectfull, respetfull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "respectfully" (pronounced ruspe"ktfulē) |
| 6 | -k t f u l ē | tactfully. |
| 5 | -t f u l ē | artfully, delightfully, fitfully, frightfully, gratefully, regretfully, rightfully, tastefully, thoughtfully, wistfully. |
| 4 | -f u l ē | anencephaly, blissfully, carefully, cheerfully, dreadfully, dutifully, faithfully, forcefully, gainfully, gleefully, gracefully, helpfully, hopefully, joyfully, lawfully, manfully, masterfully, meaningfully, mercifully, painfully, peacefully, pitifully, playfully, purposefully, ruefully, skillfully, successfully, tearfully, thankfully, truthfully, unlawfully, unsuccessfully, usefully, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, casually, centrally, cerebrally, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, florally, formally, fractionally, frantically, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gradually, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, hermetically, historically, homily, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, judicially, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manually, marginally, materially, mathematically, medicinally, mentally, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, ritualistically, romantically, royally, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactically, tangentially, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unusually, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wittily, wobbly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-l-l-p-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: respectful. | |
-3 letters: cruellest, cupellers, perfectly, restfully. | |
-4 letters: clustery, cruelest, cupelers, cupeller, fuellers, lectures, perfects, peytrels, prefects, prelects, reflects, resculpt, scullery, secretly, securely, selectly, sprucely. | |
-5 letters: cluster, clypeus, clyster, cruelly, cruelty, cullers, cullets, cupeler, curtesy, curtsey, cutlers, cutlery, ectypes, erectly, eyecups, eyefuls, fellers, fellest, ferules, fleetly, fluster, fluters, fuelers, fueller, fullers, fullery, fullest, lecture, pellets. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-l-l-p-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+3 letters: disrespectfully. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 70 65 63 74 66 75 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ... .--. . -.-. - ..-. ..- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s p e c t f u l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 0070 0065 0063 0074 0066 0075 006C 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527185827169867287787891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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