old-timely
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Nearly every town in this greatest and grandest of the Territories is in the same deplorable fix, counting its girls over every night as carefully as old-timely ladies do their chickens or spoons, and never able, by any arithmetic, to scare up more than one to every fifty fellows."
- "We dislike to mention the words, yet we must, for it sounds old-timely, and has been so much abused. GREAT REDUCTION. We like to mean what we say, and our daily aim is to stimulate confidence. So we grasp the words GREAT REDUCTION as feebly as the child in making its first effort to walk. It’s no unusual thing at this season of the year to see the words GREAT REDUCTION staring you in the face on every hand. Are they all sincere?"
- "“I have seen Mr. ⸺ (a well-known name) come here and just about go down on his knees to get Mr. Whittier to speak or even to come to a banquet,” says the landlord (who is by the way an old-timely character worthy of a novelist’s pen), […]"
- "Members After Hours at Hoggatt School. 1860s theme with watermelon, crumb cake and other old-timely touches."
Etymology
From old-time + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more old-timely (comparative)
most old-timely (superlative)