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Torpidly

Definition: Torpidly

Torpidly

Adverb

1. In a daze; in a dazed manner; "he wondered dazedly whether the term after next at his new school wouldn't matter so much".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Torpidly

Synonym: dazedly (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Torpidly

"Torpidly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Torpidly" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Modern Translation: Torpidly

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

German

  

starr (fixed, fossilized, glassy, inelastic, inflexible, intransigent, numb, paralyzed, petrified, procrustean, rigid, rigidly, set, stiff, torpid, unblinking), betäubte (anesthetized, deafened, doped, drugged, intoxicated, numbed, stunned, stupefied). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orpidlytay

   

Russian 

  

онемело. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

torpemente. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Torpidly

Misspellings

"Torpidly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Torporley. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Torpidly"

Words rhyming with "torpidly" (pronounced 'Tor"pid*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)

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Anagrams: Torpidly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-l-o-p-r-t-y"

-1 letter: tripody.

-2 letters: drylot, ploidy, polity, portly, protyl, pylori, ropily, torpid, triply, tripod.

-3 letters: dirty, doily, dorty, drily, dript, droit, dropt, lirot, pilot, pyoid, roily, triol.

-4 letters: diol, dipt, dirl, dirt, doit, dolt, dopy, dorp, dory, doty, drip, drop, idly, idol, idyl, lido, lord, lory, loti, odyl, oily, oldy, pily, pity, plod, plot, ploy, poly.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-l-o-p-r-t-y"
 

+1 letter: triploidy.

 

+2 letters: depilatory.

 

+3 letters: prodigality, providently, pteridology, tetraploidy.

 

+4 letters: heteroploidy, postdelivery, productively, proselytised, proselytized.

 

+5 letters: deprecatorily, improvidently, periodontally, perissodactyl, predominantly, predominately.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Torpidly


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

54 6F 72 70 69 64 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)

01010100 01101111 01110010 01110000 01101001 01100100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#114 &#112 &#105 &#100 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0072 0070 0069 0064 006C 0079

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

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

5481848275707891

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INDEX

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


  

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