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Definition: Spectacularly |
SpectacularlyAdverb1. In a spectacular manner; "the area was spectacularly scenic". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spectacularly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
Synonym: SpectacularlySynonym: stunningly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spectacularly |
| English words defined with "spectacularly": stunningly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spectacularly": Craptacular. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Solomon Islands | The smaller islands are atolls and raised coral reefs, often spectacularly beautiful. (references) |
Nigeria | Foreign exchange earnings and government revenues increased spectacularly with the oil price rises of 1973-74. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia by U.S. geologists in the 1930s, although largescale production did not begin until after World War II. Oil wealth has made possible rapid economic development, which began in earnest in the 1960s and accelerated spectacularly in the 1970s, transforming the kingdom. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Spectacularly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spectacularly" is used about 201 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% | 201 | 21,536 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "spectacularly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 壮观地 (magnificently). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | eindrucksvolle (impressively). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | látványosan. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 장관 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ectacularlyspay эффектно (showily). (various references) | ||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spectacularly" (pronounced spekta"kyulerlē) |
| 7 | -k y u l er l ē | circularly, particularly. |
| 6 | -y u l er l ē | extracellularly, irregularly, popularly, regularly, singularly. |
| 5 | -u l er l ē | similarly. |
| 4 | -l er l ē | scholarly. |
| 3 | -er l ē | bitterly, brotherly, cleverly, disorderly, eagerly, easterly, elderly, entirely, fatherly, formerly, gingerly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, improperly, lawyerly, leisurely, linearly, masterly, miserly, motherly, neighborly, northeasterly, northerly, northwesterly, orderly, overly, painterly, peculiarly, properly, quarterly, soberly, somberly, southerly, tenderly, utterly, Weatherly, westerly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-l-p-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: spectacular. | |
-3 letters: accurately, calculates, spectrally, specularly. | |
-4 letters: acrylates, arcuately, aspectual, calculate, calypters, calyptras, catalepsy, claustral, crustacea, eucalypts, placaters, sacculate, scutellar, secularly. | |
-5 letters: accruals, accurate, acrylate, actually, acylates, allayers, astrally, caecally, caesural, calcspar, caltraps, calycate, calyceal, calycles, calypter, calyptra, capsular, captures, caraculs, casually, casualty, catcalls, causally, claustra, clustery, eucalypt, lacteals, laterals, palestra, paralyse, pastural, patellar. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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