Sturdily

Definition: Sturdily

Sturdily

Adverb

1. In a sturdy manner; "feet sturdily apart".

Date "sturdily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Crosswords: Sturdily

Specialty definitions using "sturdily": ring-roll grizzly. (references)

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	It's got to be killed, said the Princess sturdily. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	But he put his hand upon the key he had relinquished, turned it sturdily, walked in, and lighted his candle.
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"Sturdily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sturdily" is used about 35 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%	35	58,339

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "sturdily": sturdily-built.
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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.

Language		Translations for "sturdily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		健壮 (robust, sturdy). (various references)

German		kräftig (able bodied, athletic, big, bold, brawny, burly, effectual, firm, florid, forceful, fresh, full, Hale, hard, Hardy, healthy, heartily, hearty, heftily, hefty, husky, keen, loud, loudly, lustily, lusty, massive, nourishing, powerful, powerfully, puissant, rich, robust, robustly, solid, sound, stalwart, strong, strongly, sturdy, substantial, trig, upstanding, vigorous, violent, violently, vivid). (various references)

Greek		στερεώσ (hardily), γερά, δυνατά (forte, keenly, mightily, strongly). (various references)

Hungarian		szilárdan (firmly, stably, steadily, steady, substantially, tightly). (various references)

Korean		건장하게. (various references)

Pig Latin		urdilystay

Russian		крепко (fast, firmly, fixedly, sound, stoutly, strongly). (various references)

Swedish		kraftigt (considerably, forcibly, hard, heavily, powerfully, richly, stiffly, virtuously). (various references)

Ukrainian		сильно (aloud, amain, bitterly, deep, deeply, hard, high, loud, nervously, powerfully, severely, sound, strongly, violently, widely), твердо (firm, firmly, hard). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Sturdily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Studeley, surlily. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "sturdily" (pronounced 'Stur"di*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 "d-i-l-r-s-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: dustily, rustily.
	-2 letters: lyrist, studly, sturdy, sultry.
	-3 letters: dirls, dirts, dirty, ditsy, drily, duits, durst, dusty, idyls, lurid, lusty, rusty, silty, study, styli, surly, tirls, truly, turds, yirds, yurts.
	-4 letters: dirl, dirt, dits, drys, duit, duly, dust, duty, idly, idyl, lids, list, lits, litu, lust, rids, ruly, rust, ruts, sild, silt, slid, slit, slur.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-l-r-s-t-u-y"
	+3 letters: desultorily.
	+4 letters: disastrously, disreputably, disruptively, distraughtly, disturbingly, idolatrously, industrially, stridulatory, stridulously.
	+5 letters: deleteriously, destructively, distressfully, distrustfully, industriously, subordinately, superfluidity.
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Sturdily

Definition: Sturdily

Sturdily

Adverb

Crosswords: Sturdily

Photo Album: Sturdily

Use in Literature: Sturdily

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Usage Frequency: Sturdily

Expression: Sturdily

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sturdily

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Modern Translation: Sturdily

Chinese

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Greek

Hungarian

Korean

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Ukrainian

Misspellings: Sturdily

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Sturdily"

Anagrams: Sturdily

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INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
sturdily	7
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