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Definition: Sentimentally |
SentimentallyAdverb1. In a sentimental manner; "`I miss the good old days,' she added sentimentally". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sentimentally" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
| Antonym: unsentimentally (adv). (additional references) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Elton may talk sentimentally, but he will act rationally. |
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| "Sentimentally" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sentimentally" is used about 29 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% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sentimentally"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عاطفيا, بصورة عاطفية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | sentimentalement, d'une voix sentimentale, de façon sentimentale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | sentimental (maudlin, sentimental), gefühlvoll (emotional, emotionally, expressive, feelingly, lyric, lyrical, lyrically, sensitive, sentimental, soulful, soulfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | συναισθηματικά (emotionally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entimentallysay sentimental (lackadaisical, maudlin, namby-pamby, sentimental, sentimentalist, slip-slop, soapy, soft, soulful, soulfully, tender-hearted). (various references) сентиментально. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Sentimentally" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sentamentaly, sentimentals, sentimentaly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-l-m-n-n-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: entailments, installment, sentimental. | |
-3 letters: alinements, enlistment, entailment, instalment, lineaments, sentential, sentiently. | |
-4 letters: alinement, eminently, enamelist, estaminet, instantly, intensely, leniently, lineament, mantelets, melanites, mentalist, mentality, saliently, satellite, seminally, sententia, sentiment, tenailles. | |
-5 letters: ailments, aliments, amylenes, anisette, enamines, entitles, estimate, etamines, innately, insanely, intently, latently, layettes, lealties, linesman, linesmen, maltiest, manilles, manliest, mannites, mantelet, mantlets, matinees. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 74 69 6D 65 6E 74 61 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -. - .. -- . -. - .- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n t i m e n t a l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0074 0069 006D 0065 006E 0074 0061 006C 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53718086757971808667787891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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