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Definition: Lyrically |
LyricallyAdverb1. In a lyrical manner; "she danced the part of the Black Swan very lyrically". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lyrically" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
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Screenplays | Listen, looking at it very simply musicology and ethnically, the Rutles were essentially Imperical maleonglece of a rhythmically radical yet verbally passé and temporally transcended lyrically content welded with historically innovative melodical material transposed and transmogrified by the ankus of the Rutland ethic experience which elevated them from essentially alpha exponents of in essence merely beta potential harmonic material into the prime cultural exponents of Aloin condensic comic standard form (The Rutles; writing credit: Eric Idle) | |
Lyrics | Lyrically splittin dismissin (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Lyrically" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 95.12% of the time. "Lyrically" is used about 41 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) | 95.12% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.88% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "lyrically"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | '情地. (various references) | ||||
French | lyriquement. (various references) | ||||
German | lyrisches, gefühlvoll (emotional, emotionally, expressive, feelingly, lyric, lyrical, sensitive, sentimental, sentimentally, soulful, soulfully). (various references) | ||||
Greek | λυρικώσ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | yricallylay | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lyrically" (pronounced li"riklē) |
| 5 | -r i k l ē | categorically, generically, geometrically, hysterically, metaphorically, numerically, rhetorically, symmetrically. |
| 4 | -i k l ē | academically, acoustically, aerobically, aerodynamically, aesthetically, algebraically, alphabetically, analytically, angelically, apologetically, artistically, astronomically, authentically, automatically, basically, biologically, characteristically, chronologically, classically, cosmetically, democratically, demographically, diplomatically, dogmatically, domestically, dramatically, drastically, ecologically, economically, ecstatically, emphatically, energetically, enthusiastically, erratically, ethnically, euphemistically, fantastically, forensically, genetically, geopolitically, graphically, heroically, hypothetically, ideologically, idiotically, ironically, linguistically, logically, logistically, mechanically, microscopically, musically, optically, organically, pathologically, phonetically, physiologically, poetically, prolifically, psychologically, publically, publicly, radically, realistically, rhythmically, sarcastically, specifically, sporadically, stoically, strategically, stylistically, synthetically, systematically, systemically, terrifically, thematically, theologically, tragically, uncharacteristically, undiplomatically, unrealistically, vertically, volcanically. |
| 3 | -k l ē | alchemically, anatomically, athletically, biweekly, blankly, briskly, brusquely, chemically, darkly, frankly, grotesquely, likely, medically, meekly, newsweekly, obliquely, paradoxically, practically, prickly, quickly, sickly, sleekly, slickly, sparkly, starkly, thickly, typically, uniquely, unlikely, weakly, weekly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-l-r-y-y" | |
-2 letters: allylic, lyrical. | |
-3 letters: lacily, racily. | |
-4 letters: allyl, clary, lilac, lyric, rally, riyal. | |
-5 letters: acyl, airy, ally, aril, aryl, call, carl, clay, illy, lacy, laic, lair, lall, lari, liar, lily, lira, racy, rail, rial, rill, yill. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-l-l-r-y-y" | |
+4 letters: cylindrically, hydraulically, paralytically, pyrolytically. | |
+5 letters: hydrologically, hydrolytically, hyperbolically, hypergolically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 79 72 69 63 61 6C 6C 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. -.--. .-. .. -.-. .- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01111001 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L y r i c a l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0079 0072 0069 0063 0061 006C 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)469184756967787891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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