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Definition: Sublimely |
SublimelyAdverb1. With sublimity; in a sublime manner; "awaking in me, sublimely unconscious, interest and energy for tackling these tasks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sublimely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references) |
Synonym: SublimelySynonym: utterly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sublimely |
| English words defined with "sublimely": utterly. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Cicero | The contemplation of celestial things will make a man speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. |
Robert Southey | Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Sublimely" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sublimely" is used about 25 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% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sublimely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сюблимно, грандиозно (proudly), блажено. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vznešenì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sublim (eloquent, lofty, refined, sublime), erhaben (august, be in relief, convex, convexly, elevated, embossed, eminent, exalted, high, illustrious, lofty, majestic, noble, raised, solemn, sublime, superior, tall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tökéletesen (clean, dead, from hub to tire up to the hub, on a dead level, perfectly, to the nines), nagyszerűen (beautifully, gorgeously, like one o'clock, magnificently, superbly), magasztosan (loftily, majestically), fenségesen, fennkölten (loftily), felségesen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ublimelysay sublim (miraculous, stately, sublime). (various references) возвышенно (greatly). (various references) sublimemente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Sublimely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sublimally, sublimbly, sublimlly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sublimely" (pronounced 'Sub*lime"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-l-m-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: bullies, illumes, mulleys, sublime. | |
-3 letters: blimey, bluely, bluesy, blueys, blumes, busily, illume, imbues, libels, limbus, limeys, milles, muesli, muleys, mulley, slimly, smelly, smiley, umbels, umbles. | |
-4 letters: bells, belly, biles, bills, billy, blimy, blues, bluey, blume, bulls, bully, ileum, ileus, imbue, libel, lieus, limbs, limby, limes, limey, lisle, lubes, mells, miles, mille, mills, mules. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-l-m-s-u-y" | |
+1 letter: berylliums. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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