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Sombrely

Definition: Sombrely

Sombrely

Adverb

1. 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 "sombrely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Synonym: Sombrely

Synonym: somberly (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Sombrely

"Sombrely" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sombrely" is used about 47 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%4749,740

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

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Expression: Sombrely

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "sombrely": sombrely-attired.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sombrely

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sombrely

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sombrely

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

Hungarian

  

sötéten (darkly, funereally), mogorván (crustily, grimly, grouchily, gruffly, gruffy, morosely, sulkily, surlily, to snarl), komoran (cheerlessly, dismally, funereally, glumly, sternly, sullenly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tristamente (sadly, somberly), malinconicamente (melancholically, somberly), di scuro (somberly), con colori scuri (somberly). (various references)

   

Manx

  

dy groamagh, dy dorraghey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ombrelysay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sombrely

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: somberly.

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sombrely


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

53 6F 6D 62 72 65 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 01101111 01101101 01100010 01110010 01100101 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#109 &#98 &#114 &#101 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 006D 0062 0072 0065 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5381796884717891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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