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Definition: Somberly |
SomberlyAdverb1. In a somber manner; "`That's sure bad news,' said Dowd, somberly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "somberly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonym: SomberlySynonym: sombrely (adv). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "somberly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | düsterne. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ζοφερώσ (markily). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | tristamente (sadly, sombrely), malinconicamente (melancholically, sombrely), di scuro (sombrely), con colori scuri (sombrely). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | omberlysay мрачно (darkly, gloomily). (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Somberly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Osmerley, samberly, semberly, sombrel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "somberly" (pronounced sÄ"mberlē) |
| 4 | -b er l ē | neighborly, soberly. |
| 3 | -er l ē | bitterly, brotherly, circularly, cleverly, disorderly, eagerly, easterly, elderly, entirely, extracellularly, fatherly, formerly, gingerly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, improperly, irregularly, lawyerly, leisurely, linearly, masterly, miserly, motherly, northeasterly, northerly, northwesterly, orderly, overly, painterly, particularly, peculiarly, popularly, properly, quarterly, regularly, scholarly, similarly, singularly, southerly, spectacularly, tenderly, utterly, Weatherly, westerly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sombrely. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-m-o-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: embryos, soberly. | |
-2 letters: beryls, bromes, emboly, embryo, morels, morsel, ombers, ombres, robles, somber, sombre, sorely, symbol. | |
-3 letters: berms, beryl, besom, boles, bores, brome, brose, brosy, byres, byrls, lobes, lores, loser, lyres, merls, moles, morel, mores, morse, mosey, obeys, omber, ombre, omers, orles, oyers, robes, roble, roles, slyer, sober, sorel, ylems, yores. | |
-4 letters: bels, berm. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-m-o-r-s-y" | |
+2 letters: symbolizer. | |
+3 letters: biopolymers, corymbosely, salmonberry, symbolizers. | |
+4 letters: cumbersomely, demonstrably, embryologies, embryologist, membranously, polyribosome, umbrageously. | |
+5 letters: commensurably, embryologists, myelofibroses, myelofibrosis, polyribosomes, postembryonal, troublesomely. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6D 62 65 72 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- -- -... . .-. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o m b e r l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006D 0062 0065 0072 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381796871847891 |
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