advisedly
/ədˈvaɪ.zɪd.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.83 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With intentionality, and deliberately, usually also with a connotation of due consideration and wise choosing.
adv
As prescribed by an authority, especially a dictionary
Example Sentences
- "[…] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others"
- "The tongue is a sharp and parlous weapon, which we are bound to keep up in the sheath, or never to draw forth but advisedly, and upon just occasion; it must ever be wielded with caution and care: to brandish it wantonly, to lay about with it blindly and furiously, to slash and smite therewith any that happeth to come in our way, doth argue malice or madness."
- "Of the remaining 580 channels, 2.5 channels had no fuel element in them and no orifice. We assumed advisedly that these transmitted twice as much air as an unorificed, unplugged channel loaded with a fuel cartridge."
- "By contrast, unelemental philosophy no longer has as its focal point humanity's relation to the world. Man (I use this term advisedly) becomes an analysing spectator of his existence, as opposed to a participant in it."
- "Now when I say the seal is vicious I use the term advisedly, according to Webster's 9th New Collegiate, definition 4b"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more advisedly (comparative)
most advisedly (superlative)