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Definition: Wretchedly |
WretchedlyAdverb1. In a wretched manner; "`I can't remember who I am,' I said, wretchedly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wretchedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smallness | Adverb: to a small extent, on a small scale; a little bit, a wee bit; slightly; Adjective: imperceptibly; miserably, wretchedly; insufficiently; imperfectly; faintly; passably, pretty well, well enough. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Wretchedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wretchedly" is used about 55 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% | 55 | 45,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "wretchedly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 孤苦地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | elende, elend (abject, awful, calamitous, calamitously, calamitousness, confounded, destitution, dismal, distress, dreadful, hardship, meager, miserable, miserably, misery, penury, pitiable, pitiful, plight, poorly, poverty, sick, sordid, sordidness, squalid, squalor, unhappiness, woeful, woefully, woefulness, wretched, wretchedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szerencsétlenül (ill, miserably, woefully), nyomorultan (to die a dog's death, to die like a dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비참하게 (Abjectly, miserably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etchedlywray жалко (pitiably). (various references) uselt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | miserabile, misere, misericorditer, nequiter. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wretchedly" (pronounced re"khudlē) |
| 4 | -u d l ē | acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, belatedly, candidly, contentedly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, doggedly, evenhandedly, excitedly, guardedly, heatedly, markedly, placidly, pointedly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, rigidly, ruggedly, solidly, splendidly, stupidly, supposedly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unprecedentedly, validly, vividly, wholeheartedly, wickedly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, coldly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, Diddley, downwardly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, haphazardly, hardly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, kindly, loudly, madly, medley, mildly, niggardly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, profoundly, proudly, Ridley, roundly, rudely, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, soundly, straightforwardly, thirdly, unfriendly, ungodly, upwardly, weirdly, widely, wildly, worldly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-l-r-t-w-y" | |
-2 letters: wretched. | |
-3 letters: cheerly, erectly, lechery, letched, retched, welched, welcher. | |
-4 letters: celery, cheder, cheery, cherty, chewed, chewer, clewed, crewed, crewel, etched, etcher, leched, lecher, lechwe, lewder, lychee, rechew, reechy, reweld, teched, tercel, tweedy, welder, welted, welter, wether, wretch. | |
-5 letters: ceder, cered, cheer, chert, chewy, chyle, creed, creel, crwth, cyder, decry, deter, dwelt, eched, elder, elect. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 72 65 74 63 68 65 64 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . - -.-. .... . -.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01110010 01100101 01110100 01100011 01101000 01100101 01100100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W r e t c h e d l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0072 0065 0074 0063 0068 0065 0064 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57847186697471707891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai, 중국, китайский, китаец, kinesisk |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , deutsch, Deutsche, német, 독일, немецкий, tysk |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar, 헝가리, венгр, венгерский, ungrare |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, кореец, корейский, koreansk |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, orosz, 러시아, русский, ryss |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, schwedisch, svéd, 스웨덴, шведский, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol, 영국, английский, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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