sweetly
/ˈswiːtli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- ""No, Auntie," said Hardman, sweetly, seriously."
- ""Hey, Sis, do yah want a Hertz Donut?" one of them sweetly said as the other one held out a donut bag. She reached for it. Her step-sister snatched the bag away and socked her hard in the arm instead. "Hurts, Don't it?" they chime, laughing at her pain."
- "Sitting in the seat with the engine off before that day, the gears slid in so sweetly, and double de-clutching was so easy, I had done it a million times."
Etymology
From Middle English swetly, swetely, sweteliche, from Old English swētlīċe (“sweetly; pleasantly”), equivalent to sweet + -ly. Cognate with Old High German swuozlīhho (“sweetly”), Icelandic sætlega (“sweetly; with gratitude”), German süßlich (“sweetish; sugary”), Dutch zoetelijk (“sentimental”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: swetly, swētlīċe
Inflected Forms
sweetlier (comparative)
more sweetly (comparative)
sweetliest (superlative)
most sweetly (superlative)