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Definition: BLACKLY |
BLACKLYAdverb1. In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously. |
Date "BLACKLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | In her graduating uniform, Blackly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1906. She later served in the Navy Nurse Corps. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Mason gave him another grim look from a vast repertoire he had developed which ranged from very, very blackly grim indeed at the bottom of the scale, all the way up to tiredly resigned and only faintly grim, which he reserved for his children’s birthdays |
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| "BLACKLY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLACKLY" is used about 21 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% | 21 | 76,261 |
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 |
blackly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLACKLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | أسود (black, blacken, ebony, lions, negro, raven, sable). (various references) | |
French | noir (black, black man), clandestin (black). (various references) | |
German | schwarz (black, deeply tanned, dirty, glum, illicit, noir, papist, sable, shady, without paying), niedrig (base, basely, humble, low, lowly, low-slung, mean, menial, menially, neap, sordid, squat, vile), finster (black, dark, dim, frowning, gauntly, gloomily, gloomy, glowering, gloweringly, grim, louring, loweringly, murkily, murky, obfuscatory, saturnine, shady, sinister, somber, somberly, sombre), dünster. (various references) | |
Italian | negro (black, blackamoor, negro). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acklyblay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BLACKLY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bacly, blackl, Blackleys, Blackula, blacky, blacl, Blasczyk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BLACKLY" (pronounced 'Black"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly, Cavalierly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-l-l-y" | |
-2 letters: alkyl, balky, bally, black. | |
-3 letters: ably, acyl, alky, ally, back, balk, ball, caky, calk, call, clay, lack, lacy, laky, yack. | |
-4 letters: aby, alb, all, bal, bay, cab, cay, kab, kay, lab, lac, lay, yak. | |
-5 letters: ab, al, ay, ba, by, ka, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-k-l-l-y" | |
+1 letter: blackfly. | |
+2 letters: buckyball. | |
+3 letters: buckyballs, rockabilly. | |
+5 letters: blackguardly. | |
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