neighborlily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Old Toby rises from his mat, / Sniffs neighborlily at the cat, / And yawns, (a trifle wide at that,) / With an old friend’s audacity;"
- "The Sloan and Padgway places adjoined neighborlily."
- "The highway skirted the front, and the lake with its great family of wavelets ran in neighborlily at the back."
- "Both men greeted and nodded neighborlily at each other."
- "David stepped up the tempo of the talk as surely, as neighborlily, as ever."
Etymology
From neighborly + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Usage
- American usage