cyclically
/ˈsɪk.lɪk.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a cyclic manner; in cycles; periodically.
Example Sentences
- "The exhibits, moreover, reject the supposedly Eurocentric notion of historical development. “Things are looked at very cyclically, not in a linear way,” one curator told The Washington Post."
- "El Niño, a temperature change in the Pacific ocean that happens cyclically, may have begun interacting with the long-term process of global warming, with catastrophic results."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈsɪk.lɪk.li/
Inflected Forms
more cyclically (comparative)
most cyclically (superlative)