concretely
/kˈɑnkɹˌitli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a concrete manner, physically, definitely
Example Sentences
- "The components of Roland's "heroness" can not be contemplated per se. The audience perceives those components or qualities concretely through Roland's acts."
- "More concretely, in his genderfree society — reminiscent of Lake Wobegon — women as well as men would be independent, decisive, and strong, and men as well as women would be cooperative, open, and nurturing (if not good-looking)."
- "Since the term 'imagination,' absolutely in a grammatical sense, means a certain, definite idea, that is, an affection of the mind, representative or implying a representation, in the same way I acknowledge that nothing physical, or even in any sense moral, could be conceived by the mind, or could be understood precisely, if not by means of a figurable example: and not only, as they say in the schools, concretely, but especially individually: for at the lowest degree, this can be done vaguely and even fictitiously by an arbitrary representation, which is nevertheless figuarable or imaginable."
Etymology
Etymology tree English concrete Middle English -ly English -ly English concretely From concrete + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more concretely (comparative)
most concretely (superlative)