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Definition: Tersely |
TerselyAdverb1. In a short and concise manner; "a particular bird, exactly and tersely described in the book of birds". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tersely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonym: TerselySynonym: telegraphically (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tersely |
| English words defined with "tersely": telegraphically. (references) |
| "Tersely" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tersely" is used about 117 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% | 117 | 29,823 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tersely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | ясно (clear, clearly, distinctly, evidently, expressly, fair, obviously, plain, precise), сбито (telegraphically). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 简洁地 (succinctly). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | laconiquement. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | prägnante (concisely, incisively, succinctly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | λακωνικά. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | velősen (concisely), tömören (briefly, concisely, pithily, succinctly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 간결하게 (Concisely, succinctly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | erselytay сжато (briefly, succinctly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Tersely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beersele, Dersely, Dersley, Eersel, Erdelyi, Ersly, Keresely, Reresby, Tercel, tercely, tersery, tersley, Toselli, Tressel, yersel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tersely" (pronounced ter"slē) |
| 4 | -er" s l ē | adversely, inversely, perversely. |
| 3 | -s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, closely, concisely, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, conversely, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, densely, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, expressly, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, falsely, famously, ferociously, fiercely, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, grossly, harmlessly, harmoniously, hellaciously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, immensely, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intensely, intravenously, jealously, judiciously, laboriously, listlessly, loosely, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, nervously, nicely, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, parsley, perilously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, precisely, previously, princely, prodigiously, profusely, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scarcely, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, sparsely, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tensely, thusly, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: restyle. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: relets, sleety, steely, streel, styler, yester. | |
-2 letters: ester, eyers, eyres, leers, leery, leets, lyres, reels, reest, relet, reset, seely, sleet, slyer, steel, steer, stele, stere, style, teels, teles, terse, trees, treys, tyees, tyers, tyres. | |
-3 letters: eels, eely, eery, else, erst, eyer, eyes, eyre, leer, lees, leet, lest, lets, leys, lyes, lyre, lyse, reel, rees, rely, rest, rete, rets, ryes, seel, seer, sere, stey, stye, teel, tees, tele, tels, tree, trey, tyee, tyer, tyes, tyre. | |
-4 letters: eel, els, ere, ers, eye, lee, let, ley, lye, ree, res, ret, rye, see, sel, ser, set, sly, sty, tee, tel, try, tye, yes, yet. | |
-5 letters: el, er, es, et, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: easterly, peytrels, restyled, restyles, secretly, smeltery, westerly. | |
+2 letters: austerely, earnestly, freestyle, lysimeter, peristyle, polyester, presently, proselyte, restively, roseately, seriately, severalty, steelyard, sterilely. | |
+3 letters: assertedly, clerestory, discreetly, discretely, esuriently, freestyler, freestyles, lysimeters, peristyles, polyesters, proselyted, proselytes, resolutely, restlessly, separately, sperrylite, steelyards, stereology, tirelessly, tiresomely. | |
+4 letters: assertively, cyclometers, desperately, dexterously, flusteredly, freestylers, galleryites, grotesquely, heartlessly, heartsomely, heterolyses, heterolysis, interlayers, polystyrene, presciently, presentably, proselytise, proselytize, proteolyses, resentfully, resiliently, resistively, respectably, secretively, sperrylites, storyteller, terpolymers, versatilely. | |
+5 letters: breathlessly, butterflyers, counterstyle, drysalteries, effortlessly, electrolyses, electrolysis, electrolytes, electrolyzes, electrotypes, esoterically, excrescently, extraneously, extrasystole, glycerinates, heterocycles, hyperrealist, indiscreetly, interestedly, intervalleys, iridescently, irresolutely, overmodestly, persistently, phylacteries, polystyrenes, postdelivery, prehensility, presbyterial, propertyless, proselytised, proselytises, proselytized, proselytizer, proselytizes, protensively, relentlessly, resistlessly, respectfully, respectively, restrainedly, restrictedly, serpentinely, severability, storytellers, surefootedly, swelteringly, transversely, tremendously, trolleybuses. | |
| 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)54 65 72 73 65 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .-. ... . .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01100101 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e r s e l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0072 0073 0065 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)54718485717891 |
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