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Definition: Punctually |
PunctuallyAdverb1. At the proper time; "she was duly apprised of the raise". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "punctually" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Synonym: PunctuallySynonym: duly (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punctuality | Adverb: on time, punctually, at the deadline, precisely, exactly; right on time, to the minute; in time; in good time, in military time, in pudding time, in due time; time enough; with no time to spare, by a hair's breadth. |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Adverb: periodically; Adjective: at regular intervals, at stated times; at fixed established, at established periods; punctually; Adjective: de die in diem; from day to day, day by day. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Punctually |
| English words defined with "punctually": Del credere ♦ in good time. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At first, as we have seen, she paid the Thenardiers punctually. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The payments stipulated by the convention with Denmark have been punctually made, and the amount is ready for distribution among the claimants as soon as the board, now sitting, shall have performed their functions. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Punctually" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Punctually" is used about 30 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% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
punctually | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "punctually"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بالضبط (exactly, just so, nicely, precisely, properly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | навреме (betimes, duly, in time, on schedule, on time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 准时地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | täsmälleen (exactly, precisely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pünktliche, pünktlich (accurate, exact, meticulous, on time, on-time, precise, prompt, punctual, punctuality, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 時"どおりに (as regularly as a clock), 正正と (accurately, exactly, neatly, nicely), 正正 (accurately, exactly, neatly), 正々と (accurately, exactly, neatly, nicely), 正々 (accurately, exactly, neatly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいせいと (accurately, exactly, neatly, nicely), せいせい (accurately, create, due west, exactly, feel refreshed, feel relieved, form, generate, growing up, lively, neatly, purification, symmetrical), じか"どおりに (as regularly as a clock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 어김없게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unctuallypay pontualmente (exactly, on time, promptly, sharp). (various references) pontualmente (promptly). (various references) punctual (precise, prompt, punctual), exact (accurate, accurately, by the square, careful, clean-cut, clipping, clockwork, correct, dead, directly, due, even, exact, exactly, faithful, fitting, flat, for all the world, formal, just, just so, narrow, perfect, precise, precisely, proper, punctual, regular, right, rigorous, scholarly, sharp, slick, straight, strict, strictly, that's the idea, to a day, to a hair's breadth, true, truly, you've hit it). (various references) аккуратно (accurately, neatly, smartly, tidily, trimly). (various references) puntualmente (duly, promptly), exactamente (accurately, correctly, exactly, just, precisely, quite, right, strictly, truly). (various references) punktligt (duly, on time). (various references) точно (accurately, cold, dead, definitely, due, exactly, explicitly, fair, faithfully, flush, just, microscopically, minutely, precisely, prompt, sharp, to a turn, true, truly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "punctually" (pronounced 'Punc"tu*al*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-l-l-n-p-t-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: punctual. | |
-3 letters: ululant, unaptly. | |
-4 letters: auntly, cullay, cupula, lunacy, lunula. | |
-5 letters: aptly, aunty, canty, caput, clapt, cully, culpa, cutup, layup, pally, panty, patly, plant, platy, punty, tally, typal, ulpan, unapt, uncap, uncut, unlay, yulan. | |
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