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Definition: Haltingly |
HaltinglyAdverb1. In a halting manner; "he spoke haltingly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "haltingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Synonym: HaltinglySynonym: not fluently (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Haltingly |
| English words defined with "haltingly": bumble ♦ falter ♦ Pausingly ♦ stammer, stutter. (references) |
| "Haltingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Haltingly" 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 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "haltingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në mëdyshje (hesitant, hesitantly, hesitatingly, perplexed, puzzled, vacillating), duke çaluar. (various references) | |
Czech | zajikavì, nepevnì, nejistì (doubtfully). (various references) | |
German | hinkend (lame, limping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vontatottan (languidly), nehézkesen (laboriously, lubberly, ponderously, sullenly, uneasily). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terhenti-henti, bergegap (falteringly). (various references) | |
Italian | zoppicante (halting, lame, limping). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 片言 (a smattering, brief remark, few words, speak haltingly, talk like a baby). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かた"と (a smattering, speak haltingly, talk like a baby). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | altinglyhay.(various references) | |
Spanish | vacilantemente, titubeantemente (hesitantly), con vacilación (hesitatingly). (various references) | |
Turkish | tereddüd ederek. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lưỡng lự (double-minded, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, hesitant, hesitatingly, hesitative, indecisive, seesaw, shilly-shally, undecided, unsteady), khấp khiểng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Haltingly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hintingly, howlingly, hulkingly, joltingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "haltingly" (pronounced hô"ltinglē) |
| 5 | -t i ng l ē | devastatingly, disappointingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frustratingly, hauntingly, interestingly, sportingly, unhesitatingly, unwittingly, wittingly. |
| 4 | -i ng l ē | accordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, confusingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, frighteningly, frowningly, glowingly, grudgingly, increasingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, startlingly, strikingly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, warningly, willingly. |
| 3 | -ng l ē | gangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-l-l-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: tallying. | |
-2 letters: allying, anthill, halting, laithly, lathing, lightly, nightly, nylghai. | |
-3 letters: alight, gainly, haling, hating, haying, hyalin, laying, litany, nighty, tangly, thalli, thinly, tingly. | |
-4 letters: algin, align, gaily, gally, ghyll, giant, gilly, glial, glint, hilly, hying, inlay, laigh, laith, laity, lathi, lathy, liang, ligan, light, linga, lingy, linty, lying, night, tally, tangy, thill, thing, tying. | |
-5 letters: agin, agly, alit, ally, anil, anti, ayin, gain, gait, gall, ghat, gill, gilt, glia, gnat, hail, hall, halt, hang, hant, hila, hill, hilt, hint, hyla, illy, inly, lain, lang, lath, lati, lilt, lily, ling, lint, liny, nail, nigh, nill, tail, tain, tali, tall, tang, than, thin, till, ting, tiny, tyin, yagi, yang, yill. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-l-l-n-t-y" | |
+1 letter: tallyhoing. | |
+4 letters: humiliatingly. | |
+5 letters: exhilaratingly, photogenically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6C 74 69 6E 67 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-.. - .. -. --. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101100 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a l t i n g l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006C 0074 0069 006E 0067 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)426778867580737891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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