cheerly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Wel ſaid, thou look'ſt cheerely, / And Ile be with thee quickly: yet thou lieſt / In the bleake aire."
- "The first thing that roused me from my meditations, was a cheerly voice that saluted me as I was approaching Tattersall's; round whose gates a detachment of tilburies, stanhopes, and led-horses were clustered.""
- "My louing Lord, I take my leaue of you, [...] Not ſicke, although I haue to do with death, / But luſtie, yong, and cheerely drawing breath."
- "Oft liſt'ning hovv the Hounds and horn, / Chearly rouſe the ſlumbring morn, […]"
- "What matters me who wears the crown of France? / Whether a Richard or a Charles possess it? / They reap the glory—they enjoy the spoil— / We pay—we bleed!—The sun would shine as cheerly, / The rains of heaven as seasonably fall, / Tho' neither of these royal pests existed."
- "He cheerly passes, quaffs the social glass, Propines the winds, or toasts some blooming lass."
Etymology
From cheer + -ly.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more cheerly (comparative)
cheerlier (comparative)
most cheerly (superlative)
cheerliest (superlative)