Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eyely

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: eye-ly
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Visible or apparent to the eye; evident; obvious.

Archaic

adv

Obviously; evidently; apparently.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"Ofttimes we look upon an eyely prize, / And conjure means by which we may obtain / That morsel for ourself; […]"
"[…] and I quoted a few places where the first part of my accusation is capable of "eyely and euident demonstration,' to use a phrase of Leicarraga's time."
"He was eyely delited at the site you may be sure but Becky being timersome shut her eyes all the time she was seeing it."

Etymology

From Middle English ely, eiȝely, equivalent to eye + -ly.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: ely
Suffix: eye

Usage

Archaic

Synonyms

blatant manifest blatantly manifestly

Questions

What does eyely mean?: Visible or apparent to the eye; evident; obvious.
Where does eyely come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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