apely
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to, or characteristic of apes; simian.
Example Sentences
- "There is now a danger, we presume, that people may do such things by the rules of Darwinism, but the author fails to inform us whether we are likely to select servants and intimate friends because they do, or because they do not, present in their faces and on their persons indications of their apely origin?"
- "Our family is Hominidae, and we share it with four living species of great apes — chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans — as well as dozens of extinct predecessors of varying apely or humanesque traits."
Etymology
From ape + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more apely (comparative)
most apely (superlative)