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Definition: Stealthily |
StealthilyAdverb1. In a stealthy manner; "stealthily they advanced upstream". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stealthily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night; stealthily; Adjective: behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen; incognito; in camera. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stealthily |
| English words defined with "stealthily": creep, creep up ♦ hugger mugger ♦ Insinuating ♦ mouse ♦ Prowling, pussyfoot ♦ skulk, slink, slip, slip away, sneak, sneak away, sneak off, sneak out, sneak up, stalk, stalking, steal, steal away. (references) |
| "Stealthily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stealthily" is used about 71 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% | 71 | 39,674 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stealthily": approach stealthily. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "stealthily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | si hajdut, vjedhurazi (by stealth, furtively, on the sly, thievishly), tinëzisht (secretly, thievishly, underhand), tinëz (secretly, underhand). (various references) | |
Arabic | سرا (confidentially, in camera, in strict confidence, privately, secretly, underground, underhandedly), خلسة (by stealth, larceny, on the sly, surreptitiously). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безшумно (noiselessly, quiet, quietly, soundlessly), потайно (secretly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 隐身性地, 悄悄地 (gently, softly), 偷偷 (covertly, on the sly, secretly). (various references) | |
Czech | nepozorovanì. (various references) | |
Dutch | tersluiks (clandestinely, secretly), sluiks (clandestinely, secretly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝtele. (various references) | |
Finnish | varkain (secretly, surreptitiously). (various references) | |
French | furtivement (by stealth, stealth), la dérobée (by stealth). (various references) | |
German | heimlich (clandestine, clandestinely, cryptical, furtive, hidden, inwardly, lurking, privately, quiet, secret, secretive, secretly, sneaking, stealthy, stolen, surreptitious, surreptitiously, thievishly, undeclared, undercover). (various references) | |
Greek | κρυφίωσ (secretly, surreptitiously), λάθρα (slinkingly, surreptitiously). (various references) | |
Hungarian | titkon (by stealth, cloaked, covertly, in hugger-mugger), suba alatt (by stealth, on the q. t., on the q.t., on the quiet). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengintip (peep, pry, spy, watch stealthily). (various references) | |
Italian | furtivamente (furtively, slyly), di soppiatto, copertamente (covertly, secretly, under cover). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 抜き足差し足で , 抜き足で , "そ泥 (because of this, besides, by doing, by means of, can, clicking, compact, drumming, dry, due to this, frightened, happens on occasions, hard, has occurred, hitch, in addition, it has been arrangedthat, it has been decidedthat, it is I who should say so, laboriously, lately, maybe, misspelling of "kon ni chi ha", moreover, perhaps, possibly, prejudice, puritanical, recently, regularToukai-line shinkansen, secretly, sneak-thief, sound of rapping, steadily, such a thing happened, thanks to this, the other day, there are times when, through, to be able to, to be concerned about, to be particular about, to fuss over, to have done, to this extent, trouble, unflaggingly, untiringly, using, via). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぬきあしさしあしで, ぬきあしで, "っそり (secretly). (various references) | |
Korean | 비밀스럽게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ealthilystay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sub-repticiamente, peloroubo, na calada, furtivamente (furtively). (various references) | |
Romanian | tiptil (slowly), pe furiş (by stealth, furtively), pe ascuns (behind one's back, by stealth, cagily, close, darkly, hugger mugger, underground), nesimţit (callous, pachyderm, pachydermatous, thick-skinned), hoţeşte (thievishly), cãtinel (slowly, softly), binişor (don't flurry yourself, gently, not so fast, slowly, soft, softly). (various references) | |
Russian | украдкой (furtively). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | potajno (rose: under the rose, stealth, stilly), krišom (furtively, rose: under the rose, under the table). (various references) | |
Spanish | clandestinamente (clandestinely, underground), a hurtadillas (on the sly). (various references) | |
Swedish | smygande (crawl, insidious, sneaking, stealthy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | furtim. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Stealthily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stealithily, stealthly, steathily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "stealthily" (pronounced 'Stealth"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 "a-e-h-i-l-l-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: lethality, tallithes. | |
-2 letters: hyalites, lathiest, stealthy, talliths. | |
-3 letters: atheist, halites, hastily, heliast, hyalite, laithly, lethals, lithely, lithest, littles, saltily, satiety, staithe, stalely, stately, stealth, stylate, stylite, tailles, tallest, tallies, tallish, tallith, tastily, testily, thistle, thistly. | |
-4 letters: alleys, allies, easily, ethyls, halest, halite, haslet, hyetal, illest, lastly, lately, latest, lathes, lathis, latish, lattes, lealty, lethal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-l-l-s-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: theistically. | |
+3 letters: aesthetically, atheistically, synthetically. | |
+4 letters: anesthetically, anthophyllites, platyhelminths, polytheistical, prosthetically. | |
+5 letters: fetishistically, kinesthetically, osteopathically, pantheistically, sympathetically. | |
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