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Definition: Restlessly |
RestlesslyAdverb1. In a restless manner; "he cracked his knuckles restlessly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "restlessly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1715. (references) |
Crosswords: Restlessly |
| English words defined with "restlessly": fidget. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | During these halts Stephen stood awkwardly behind the two men, weary of the subject and waiting restlessly for the slow march to begin again. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The men looked up at him, and then down at the ground, and their feet moved restlessly and they shifted their weight from one leg to the other. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Restlessly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.44% of the time. "Restlessly" is used about 177 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) | 99.44% | 176 | 23,410 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 177 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "restlessly": toss restlessly. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "restlessly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不安定地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | s'agiter (toss restlessly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rastlose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανύσυχα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyugtalanul (apprehensively, discomposedly, hectically, uneasily), idegesen (edgily, jumpily, on tiptoe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | きまり悪い (at once, being ashamed, Eek!, feeling awkward, glisten, glitter, look around restlessly, quickly, right away, sparkle, squeak, squeaking, tightly, twinkle, Yipe!). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょろきょろ (look around restlessly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 활동적으로 (Actively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estlesslyray neîncetat (ceaseless, ceaselessly, continual, continually, continuous, endless, incessant, invariably, never ending, never-ceasing, relentless, sabbathless, unbroken, unceasing, unending, unremitting), fãrã linişte, fãrã astâmpãr. (various references) turbulentamente, inquietamente. (various references) kıpır kıpır (beany, fidgety, humming, like a jack-in-the-box, restive, restless, snappy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "restlessly" (pronounced re"stluslē) |
| 7 | -s t l u s l ē | listlessly. |
| 6 | -t l u s l ē | effortlessly, fruitlessly, relentlessly. |
| 5 | -l u s l ē | aimlessly, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, ceaselessly, endlessly, fabulously, flawlessly, frivolously, harmlessly, helplessly, hopelessly, jealously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, painlessly, perilously, recklessly, ridiculously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, tirelessly, tremulously, zealously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, capriciously, cautiously, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, egregiously, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmoniously, hellaciously, hideously, hilariously, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, judiciously, laboriously, ludicrously, maliciously, mysteriously, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, religiously, righteously, rigorously, seriously, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tremendously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-l-r-s-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: styleless. | |
-2 letters: restless, restyles, tressels. | |
-3 letters: resells, restyle, retells, sellers, streels, stylers, tellers, tersely, tressel, tresses, yellers. | |
-4 letters: esters, lesser, reests, relets, resell, resets, retell, seller, selles, serest, sleets, sleety, slyest, steels, steely, steers, steles, steres, streel, stress, styler, styles, teller, tellys, tressy, yeller, yesses, yester. | |
-5 letters: erses, esses, ester, eyers, eyres, leers, leery, leets. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-l-r-s-s-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: resistlessly. | |
+3 letters: trolleybusses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 74 6C 65 73 73 6C 79 |
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