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Definition: Sketchily |
SketchilyAdverb1. In a sketchy incomplete manner; "he explained sketchily"; "the dishes were only sketchily washed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sketchily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
| "Sketchily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sketchily" is used about 11 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% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sketchily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | откъслечно (piecemeal), отгоре-отгоре (anyhow), непълно (sub-), повърхностно (facilely, lightly, superficially). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | simpliste, fugitif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | oberflächlich (cursorily, facile, frivolous, futile, light minded, light-headed, lukewarm, perfunctorily, shallow, sketchy, superficial, trifling, trivial), skizzenhaft (roughly sketched, sketchy), flüchtig (brief, casual, cursorily, cursory, desultory, elusive, ephemeral, fleeting, fleetingly, flighty, fugitive, fugitively, momentary, non-permanent, passing, perfunctory, quick, sketchy, slapdash, slight, summarily, volatile, volatilely, voltile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | in modo incompleto, a grandi linee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etchilyskay схематически (schematically). (various references) somero (shallow, superficial), fugaz (ephemeral, fleeting, fugacious, transient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "sketchily" (pronounced 'Sketch"i*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-k-l-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: lecythis. | |
-2 letters: ethylic, hickeys, kitschy, kylices, lecythi, lekythi, sketchy, stickle, techily, thickly, tickles. | |
-3 letters: chesty, chiels, chiles, chisel, chyles, ethics, ethyls, hickey, itches, kithes, kitsch, kythes, liches, lichts, likest, schtik, scythe, shelty, shtick, sickle, sickly, sketch, skylit, stelic, sticky, thicks, tickle. | |
-4 letters: ceils, celts, cesti, chest, chiel, chile, chits, chyle, cites, clits, ethic, ethyl. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6B 65 74 63 68 69 6C 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.- . - -.-. .... .. .-.. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101011 01100101 01110100 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S k e t c h i l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006B 0065 0074 0063 0068 0069 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)537771866974757891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulgare, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, búlgaro |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | френски език, френски, français, französisch, francese, французский, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, allemand, tedesco, немецкий, alemán |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, italien, italienisch, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, russo, русский, ruso |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, испанский, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, englisch, inglese, английский, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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