abstractedly
/əbˈstɹæk.tɪd.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an abstracted manner; separately; in the abstract.
adv
With absence of mind .
Example Sentences
- "Doubtlesse, in the Idaea, or mentall shape before it come as it were into act, by beeing painted, cut, or carued, those terminating, and truly Mathematical lines, abstractedly considered, are manifest, adhering (or inhering rather) without any possibility of separation from the conceaued Image."
- "[I]t is abundant ſatisfaction to them if they ſee their children do vvell; their chief delight and contentment is in their childrens good abſolutely and abſtractedly, vvithout indirect regards to their ovvn advantage."
- "Qu[estion] 8. VVhether the Notions of abſolute Time, abſolute Place, and abſolute Motion be not moſt abſtractedly Metaphyſical? VVhether it be poſſible for us to meaſure, compute, or knovv them?"
- "You remember the gentleman in “The Spectator,” who had a commission of lunacy taken out against him for his extreme singularity, such as never wearing a wig, but a night-cap. Now, Sir, abstractedly, the night-cap was best; but, relatively, the advantage was overbalanced by his making the boys run after him."
- "[…] as the head of a beast is to be placed only upon its shoulders, so neither is a plant, however abstractedly treated, to be placed root uppermost […]"
- "Leaning abstractedly over a hogshead of tallow, her dark dishevelled tresses waved in opposite directions, and a Muse (as she was) appeared to vulgar eyes, a Fury!"
Etymology
Etymology tree English abstracted Middle English -ly English -ly English abstractedly From abstracted + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd.li/
Inflected Forms
more abstractedly (comparative)
most abstractedly (superlative)