arithmetically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a way characterized by addition (of increments) rather than multiplication (by factors) or exponentiation (by exponents): by an arithmetic progression.
adv
Example Sentences
- "Over the past decade the business has grown arithmetically, which shows that it is serving a demand successfully; but because it has not grown exponentially, its growth is viewed by some investors as "not good enough.""
- "The two terms are arithmetically equivalent, but they are not equally intuitive regarding what phenomenon they represent in the real world."
Etymology
Etymology tree English arithmetical Middle English -ly English -ly English arithmetically From arithmetical + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more arithmetically (comparative)
most arithmetically (superlative)