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Definition: Whimsically |
WhimsicallyAdverb1. In a fanciful manner; "the Christmas tree was fancifully decorated". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "whimsically" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonym: WhimsicallySynonym: fancifully (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Whimsically |
| English words defined with "whimsically": crackpot, crank ♦ fruitcake ♦ nut, nut case, nutcase ♦ screwball. (references) |
| "Whimsically" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Whimsically" is used about 15 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% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "whimsically"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në mënyrë të çuditshme (weirdly), me ligësi (viciously), me çudi (maggoty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 异想天开地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | wunderlichen (quaint), wunderlich (bizarre, cranky, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange, whimsical, wondrous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | capricciosamente (capriciously, naughtily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | imsicallywhay причудливо (anticly, quaintly). (various references) caprichosamente (capriciously, wantonly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "whimsically" (pronounced 'Whim"si*cal*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-c-h-i-i-l-l-m-s-w-y" | |
-2 letters: whimsical. | |
-3 letters: chiliasm. | |
-4 letters: challis, chiasmi, chimlas, chlamys, clayish, ischial, laicism, misally, miscall, sawmill, slimily. | |
-5 letters: amylic, calmly, chally, chasmy, chiasm, chilis, chilli, chills, chilly, chimla, claims, ischia, lacily, laichs, lichis, lilacs, maills, mislay, scilla, sialic, silica, slimly, whimsy, wilily. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 68 69 6D 73 69 63 61 6C 6C 79 |
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