enthusiastically
/ɪnθˌuziˈæstɪkli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an enthusiastic manner.
Example Sentences
- "When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?""
- "The new sea wall may stop the waves from the sea, but not from the children who enthusiastically greet our train as it passes. It's great to see this ages-old habit is still going strong."
- "The further right or left you go, the more likely you are to eventually come around to hating Jews. On the left, this is plain to see. From the Corbyn-era trend to attack Israel for all the world's sins, to the self-hating asaJews that tweeted enthusiastically about October 7 being a 'day of celebration' to previously vanilla comedian Reginald Hunter retweeting posts about the evils of the Talmud."
Etymology
Etymology tree English enthusiastic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English enthusiastically From enthusiastic + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more enthusiastically (comparative)
most enthusiastically (superlative)