accordingly
/əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ.li/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.02 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
adv
In natural sequence; consequently; so.
Example Sentences
- "He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card."
- "We may the number of ships behold, and so proceed accordingly."
- "Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable."
- "From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly."
- "Our preparations were all finished. Accordingly, we set sail."
- "Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose, - there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead, - came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: acordingli
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ.li/
- British English: /əˈkɔː(ɹ).dɪŋ.li/
Inflected Forms
more accordingly (comparative)
most accordingly (superlative)