warmly
/ˈwɔɹmli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a manner that maintains warm temperature.
Example Sentences
- "Be sure to dress warmly today!"
- "When praying in winter — and the winter in Regensburg was very cold — one should not shorten the prayers. He who is not warmly dressed, should go home."
- "I said so - I said so warmly, for I felt that the Professor was an ill-used man."
- "One evening in particular, about a week after Colonel Brandon left the country, his heart seemed more than usually open to every feeling of attachment to the objects around him; and on Mrs. Dashwood’s happening to mention her design of improving the cottage in the spring, he warmly opposed every alteration of a place which affection had established as perfect with him. “What!” he exclaimed—“improve this dear cottage! No. That I will never consent to. Not a stone must be added to its walls, not an inch to its size, if my feelings are regarded.”"
- "Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her. This was too much. “You are mistaken, Elinor,” said she warmly, “in supposing I know very little of Willoughby.""
- ""So you let the German spy slip through your fingers after all," protested Mr Carlyle warmly."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *warmaz Proto-West Germanic *warm Old English wearm Middle English warm English warm Middle English -ly English -ly English warmly From warm + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɔɹmli/
- British English: /ˈwɔːmli/