Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beaverly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: beaver-ly
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Like, relating to, or befitting a beaver; beaverlike

Example Sentences

""[…] Great idea, isn't it? I wonder how long they would take to Darwinize into webbed feet and a beaverly breadth of tail.""
"Indeed, they are already doing so with all the complacent industry of beavers and the beaverly repetition of aims and methods."
"Tao The Ching, the Upanishads, or Ojibway creation tales it's not owing to any sense of piety or to the beaverly enthusiasms of a pedant, but because of an ardent and abiding curiosity."

Etymology

From beaver + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more beaverly (comparative) most beaverly (superlative)

Questions

What does beaverly mean?: Like, relating to, or befitting a beaver; beaverlike
Where does beaverly come from?: From beaver + -ly.

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