Nary

Definition: Nary

Nary

Adjective

1. (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'; "heard nary a sound".

Date "nary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Synonym: Nary

Synonym: nary(a) (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Zero	Adjective: not one, not a one, not any, nary a one;not a, never a; not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot; not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
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Domain	Title
Books	Cory nary attack (reference) Dublins Turbulent Priest: Cornelius Nary 1658 - 1738 (reference) Geotechnical and Environmental Applications of Karst Geology and Hydrology: Proceedings of the 8th Multidiscipli Nary Conference on Sinkholes and the (reference) (more book examples)
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"Nary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nary" is used about 3 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	3	202,518

The following table summarizes the usage of "nary" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Nary	Last name	200	35,133
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.

Language		Translations for "nary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		nicht einer. (various references)

Pig Latin		arynay.(various references)

Russian		нисколько (at all, none, not a mite, not at all, not in the least, nothing, remotely), ни капли, ни единого. (various references)

Turkish		hiç (any, at all, aught, by any means, ever, far from, least of all, naught, ne'er, never, nil, Nix, no, no whit, none, not a dreg, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not exactly, not in the least, nothing, nought, null, nullity, ought, whatever, whatsoever, zero, zilch). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "nary": ablutionary, abolitionary, accretionary, antievolutionary, antiphonary, antirecessionary, antirevolutionary, bicentenary, bimillenary, binary, canary, cardiopulmonary, catenary, cautionary, centenary, coevolutionary, concessionary, conclusionary, concretionary, confectionary, consuetudinary, contractionary, convulsionary, coparcenary, coronary, cotyledonary, counterinflationary, counterrevolutionary, culinary, decenary, deflationary, delusionary, denary, devolutionary, dictionary, digressionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, eleemosynary, elocutionary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extortionary, extraordinary, functionary, genitourinary, geostationary, granary, hymnary, hyperinflationary, illocutionary, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, insurrectionary, interdisciplinary, interlunary, lacunary, laminary, lectionary, legionary, libationary, luminary, macroevolutionary, mercenary, microevolutionary, millenary, missionary, multidisciplinary, nonbinary, nonculinary, nondiscretionary, noninflationary, nonrevolutionary, nonstationary, octonary, ordinary, parcenary, pensionary, petitionary, plenary, postcoronary, postrevolutionary, precautionary, preliminary, prerevolutionary, previsionary, probationary, provisionary, pulmonary, quatercentenary, quaternary, questionary, quinary, quincentenary, reactionary, recessionary, reflationary, reversionary, revisionary, revolutionary, sanguinary, secretionary, seminary, senary, sesquicentenary, stagflationary, stannary, stationary, sublunary, substitutionary, subventionary, subversionary, superlunary, tercentenary, ternary, traditionary, transdisciplinary, trinary, ultrarevolutionary, unary, unextraordinary, unrevolutionary, urinary, valetudinary, veterinary, vicenary, visionary, zonary. (additional references)
	Words containing "nary": reactionaryism, reactionaryisms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anry, an'ry, ansary, Inkariy, Naar, Naby, nacy, nady, naey, nafr, nagy, nairy, nakryn, Namy, nar, narb, Narc, nardy, narey, narf, narg, Nari, narj, narky, narl, narly, narm, narn, narq, narr, narry, nart, naru, narx, nasr, Nasri, nawr, naya, Nayc, nayi, nayo, nayr, neari, nearty, neary, neoy, neri, nerp, nerr, neru, nery, Neyra, ngaru, ngry, nigri, nira, Niri, nori, nory, noryl, Nourry, nra, nras, Nri, nsr, Nukri, nyar, nzru, oary, onary, rary, zary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nary" (pronounced ne"rē)
4	n e" r ē	Canary.
3	-e" r ē	airy, Barre, Berry, Bury, cherry, Clary, dairy, Derry, eyrie, fairy, ferry, Glengarry, hairy, Harry, Jerry, Kerry, marry, merry, Parry, Perry, prairie, remarry, scary, sherry, skerry, Tarry, Terry, unwary, vary, very, wary, wherry.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: yarn.
	Words within the letters "a-n-r-y"
	-1 letter: any, nay, ran, ray, rya, yar.
	-2 letters: an, ar, ay, na, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-n-r-y"
	+1 letter: angry, barny, carny, narky, pyran, rainy, randy, rangy, rayon, unary, yarns, yearn.
	+2 letters: anergy, angary, aroynt, barony, baryon, binary, brainy, brandy, branny, brawny, cairny, canary, carney, cranky, cranny, crayon, denary, frypan, gantry, gnarly, grainy, granny, knarry, larynx, napery, nearby, nearly, notary, orangy, panfry, pantry, pyrans, rankly, ratany, raying, rayons, runway, ryokan, senary, sharny, snarky, snarly, synura, tyrant, unwary, uranyl, yantra, yarned, yarner, yawner, yearns, zonary.
	+3 letters: abhenry, acronym, agentry, almonry, anarchy, angerly, angrily, annoyer, anorexy, anymore, ardency, aroynts, bairnly, baryons, beanery, blarney, branchy, braying, cannery, canonry, carneys, carnify, carryon, chantry, crankly, crayons, cyprian, deanery, draying, drayman, draymen, dryland, errancy, frankly, fraying, frypans, gauntry, granary, grandly, graying, harmony, hydrant, hymnary, inlayer, juryman, knavery, laniary, lanyard, larceny, laundry, manuary, masonry, nectary, nummary, orangey, organdy, paronym, pharynx, plenary, praying, quinary, rainily, raisiny, raunchy, reynard, rhatany, riantly, runaway, runways, ryokans, scrawny, syncarp, synurae, syringa, tannery, tanyard, tardyon, ternary, trinary, truancy, tyranny, tyrants, unchary, uncrazy, unitary, unready, unweary, uranyls, urinary, varying, wayworn, yantras, yarding, yardman, yardmen, yarners, yarning, yawners, yearend, yearned, yearner.
	+4 letters: abhenrys, acrimony, acronyms, aerodyne, aeronomy, agrimony, agronomy, agrypnia, analyser, analyzer, ancestry, aneurysm, annoyers, anywhere, ardently, aroynted, arrantly, arraying, attorney, banditry, bankerly, barnyard, barrenly, baryonic, barytone, blarneys, blazonry, boneyard, boundary, brainily, brawnily, brazenly, bryozoan, cannonry, carbonyl, carnally, carrying, carryons, cartoony, caryotin, catenary, centaury, chancery, chronaxy, cinerary, condylar, contrary, coronary, corybant, crankily, cravenly, crayoned, culinary, cyprians, dairying, dairyman, dairymen, daringly, deaconry, decenary, dormancy, dynatron, empyrean, enactory, endarchy, entreaty, entryway, errantly, errantry, everyman, falconry, ferryman, foraying, frayings, funerary, garganey, grayling, grayness, greenway, guaranty, gynandry, gynarchy, gyniatry, gyrating, gyration, harrying, honorary, hydranth, hydrants, infantry, inlayers, interlay, intraday, inwardly, janisary, janizary, jerrycan, junkyard, karyotin, knackery, lacunary, laminary, lanyards, laryngal, larynges, larynxes, layering, linearly, luminary, mannerly, marrying, maryjane, matronly, minatory, misandry, monandry, monarchy, monetary, mordancy, nabobery, narrowly, natatory, naysayer, neurally, nomarchy, nondairy, nonhardy, nonparty, nonroyal, normalcy, normally, nugatory, numeracy, numerary, octonary, orangery, ordinary, ornately, overmany, papyrian, papyrine, paronyms, parrying, partying, patronly, pedantry, pyranoid, pyranose, quandary, radiancy, ragingly, rallying, rampancy, rancidly, randomly, ravingly, readying, regnancy, relaying, repandly, repaying, resaying, reynards, runaways, sanitary, sardonyx, sayonara, seminary, sovranly, sovranty, spraying, stannary, sternway, stingray, stramony, straying, swannery, syncarps, syncarpy, synergia, synkarya, syringas, syrphian, tanistry, tanyards, tardyons, tarnally, tarrying, tenantry, thrawnly, trainway, truantry, tyramine, tyrannic, underlay, underpay, underway, unfairly, unreally, unsavory, unwarily, uranylic, urbanely, urbanity, vagrancy, vanitory, varnishy, verdancy, vernally, vibrancy, vicenary, vinegary, vineyard, wardenry, warranty, weaponry, wearying, yardland, yardwand, yearends, yearling, yearlong, yearners, yearning, yeomanry.
	+5 letters: aberrancy, acronymic, adoringly, aepyornis, aerifying, aerodynes, affraying, agrypnias, analysers, analyzers, ancientry, ancillary, androgyne, androgyny, aneurysms, angularly, anhydride, anhydrite, anhydrous, antiparty, antiquary, antistory, anywheres, archenemy, argufying, aroynting, arytenoid, astronomy, attorneys, baneberry, barnyards, baronetcy, barytones, betraying, bewraying, blarneyed, boneyards, bracingly, brandying, bryozoans, bystander, cabinetry, candygram, carbonyls, carnality, carpentry, carpingly, caryotins, centenary, centrally, certainly, certainty, chandlery, chicanery, clergyman, contrasty, corybants, cranberry, cranially, crayoning, crayonist, dairyings, damnatory, dandruffy, darlingly, defraying, diachrony, dignitary, diurnally, dragonfly, dynamiter, dynamotor, dynatrons, earnestly, embryonal, empyreans, endurably, enterally, entryways, estraying, eternally, eyestrain, fairyland, fancywork, flagrancy, flaringly, fragrancy, frontally, gainsayer, gallantry, garganeys, generally, germanely, glaringly, glengarry, grandaddy, grandbaby, gratingly, graylings, greenways, gyrations, gyrfalcon, gyroplane, honorably, hooraying, hurraying, husbandry, hydrangea, hydranths, hydrating, hydration, hydrazine, hydrozoan, hymnaries, hyperpnea, imaginary, incurably, inerrancy, infirmary, inharmony, insectary, insularly, interlays, interplay, intricacy, itinerary, janissary, jarringly, jerrycans, junkyards, karyotins, labyrinth, laryngals, laryngeal, lawyering, layerings, layperson, learnedly, legendary, legionary, linearity, liveryman, machinery, mandatary, mandatory, manometry, manslayer, martyring, maryjanes, maternity, matrimony, mercenary, millenary, minelayer, momentary, monastery, monocracy, monolayer, mordantly, myoneural, myrobalan, naturally, naysayers, necessary, neutrally, niggardly, nonbinary, nongreasy, nonlawyer, normality, numerally, operantly, oysterman, pageantry, painterly, panegyric, panfrying, pantryman, pantrymen, paranymph, parcenary, pargyline, parlaying, parleying, parodying, parsimony, paternity, patrimony, peasantry, pecuniary, pentarchy, pharynges, pharynxes, planarity, planetary, polyandry, pratingly, pregnancy, prepaying, profanely, profanity, pulmonary, pyranoses, pyromancy, pyromania, quarrying, quarryman, quarrymen, rackingly, radiantly, rallyings, ramifying, rampantly, rancidity, rantingly, rarefying, rarifying, raspingly, ratifying, raunchily, reanalyze, recusancy, relevancy, reliantly, renewably, repayment, replaying, roaringly, roundelay, ruffianly, salarying, salaryman, salarymen, sanctuary, sayonaras, searingly, secondary, sedentary, sergeancy, sergeanty, serjeanty, signatory, sparingly, sternways, stingrays, strangely, strangury, sublunary, synergias, synkaryon, syrphians, ternately, thyratron, trainways, tyramines, tyrannies, tyrannise, tyrannize, tyrannous, unawarely, unclarity, underlays, underpays, underplay, unearthly, unitarily, unlyrical, unreality, unsprayed, unvarying, vagrantly, vainglory, varyingly, venerably, ventrally, verdantly, vestryman, vibrantly, vineyards, visionary, voluntary, vulnerary, warningly, wayfaring, wearingly, workmanly, yabbering, yammering, yardlands, yardwands, yattering, yearlings, yearnings, zemindary.
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