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Smilingly

Definition: Smilingly

Smilingly

Adverb

1. With smiles; in a smiling manner; "the girl reminded her smilingly of their childhood spent together".

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

Date "smilingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)


Antonym: unsmilingly (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Smilingly

"Smilingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Smilingly" is used about 50 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%5048,117

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

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Modern Translation: Smilingly

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

Chinese 

  

(beautiful, bright, splendid), . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hymyhuulin (with a smile on one's lips). (various references)

   

German

  

lächelnde. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

με μειδίαμα. (various references)

   

Manx

  

dy gearagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ilinglysmay

   

Portuguese

  

com sorriso. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

улыбаясь, смеясь. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sonriendo, con cara risueña. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

leende (smile, smiley, smiling). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Smilingly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "smilingly" (pronounced smī"linglē)
5-l i ng l ēappallingly, appealingly, chillingly, compellingly, startlingly, tellingly, unfailingly, unwillingly, willingly.
4-i ng l ēaccordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, 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, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, strikingly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, threateningly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwittingly, warningly, wittingly.
3-ng l ēgangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly.

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

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Anagrams: Smilingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-l-m-n-s-y"

-1 letter: millings, mislying.

-2 letters: milling, slimily, sliming, smiling.

-3 letters: isling, liming, lyings, lysing, simlin, singly, slimly.

-4 letters: gills, gilly, glims, limns, lings, lingy, lying, lysin, mills, mingy, minis, nills, sigil, silly, slily, slimy, sling, yills.

-5 letters: gill, gins, glim, gyms, ills, illy, inly, lily, limn, limy, ling, lins, liny, migs, mill, mils, mini, nill, nils, nims.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-i-l-l-m-n-s-y"
 

+1 letter: misallying.

 

+3 letters: misleadingly.

 

+5 letters: mucilaginously, organismically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Smilingly


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

53 6D 69 6C 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)

01010011 01101101 01101001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#109 &#105 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006D 0069 006C 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)

537975787580737891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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