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Definition: Amusingly |
AmusinglyAdverb1. In an entertaining and amusing manner; "Hollywood has grown too sophisticated to turn out anything really amusingly bad these days". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amusingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonym: AmusinglySynonym: divertingly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Amusingly |
| English words defined with "amusingly": divertingly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amusingly": considered harmful. (references) |
| "Amusingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amusingly" 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) | 100% | 41 | 53,521 |
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 |
amusingly perfect | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "amusingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vergnügliche (pleasurably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amusinglyay забавно (amusedly, drolly, funnily, jokingly). (various references) graciosamente (gracefully, graciously, wittily). (various references) roligt (fun). (various references) eğlendirici bir şekilde. (various references) смішно (funnily, ridiculously), кумедно, забавно. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amusingly" (pronounced umyuw"zinglē) |
| 7 | -y uw" z i ng l ē | accusingly, confusingly. |
| 5 | -z i ng l ē | agonizingly, amazingly, pleasingly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, unsurprisingly. |
| 4 | -i ng l ē | accordingly, admiringly, alarmingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frighteningly, frowningly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, strikingly, stunningly, tellingly, threateningly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, warningly, willingly, wittingly. |
| 3 | -ng l ē | gangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-m-n-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: musingly. | |
-2 letters: alumins, amusing, lingams, lungyis, maligns, mangily, mauling, mayings, nilgaus, slaying. | |
-3 letters: algins, algums, aligns, almugs, alumin, alumni, animus, asylum, gainly, gamily, gamins, inlays, laming, lasing, laying, liangs, ligans, limans, lingam, lingas, lingua, linums, lumina, lungis, lungyi, lyings, lysing, mainly, malign, maying, miauls, mislay, muling, musing, muslin, nilgau, saying, signal, singly, slangy. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-m-n-s-u-y" | |
+4 letters: magnanimously, unambiguously. | |
+5 letters: mucilaginously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 75 73 69 6E 67 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- ..- ... .. -. --. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m u s i n g l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0075 0073 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357987857580737891 |
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