fastly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "We tied the rope fastly this time; we didn't want it to get away again."
- "Before them was a door which apparently led into the grand apartments; this was fastly secured, but it yielded to their united strength, and they entered a lofty hall, whose concave top was supported by pillars."
- "A reuerend man that graz’d his cattell ny, / Sometime a bluſterer that the ruffle knew / Of Court of Cittie, and had let go by / The ſwifteſt houres obſerued as they flew, / Towards this afflicted fancy faſtly drew: / And priuiledg’d by age deſires to know / In breefe the grounds and motiues of her wo."
- "Another time, my Mother seeing them come fastly to her house, my brother gave the key of his desk to my sister, bidding her convey the money somewhither; […]"
- "Rope, Cord, or Strap, in the Manage, is any of theſe tied round a Pillar to which the Horſe is faſtned when they begin to quicken and ſupple and teach him to flee from the Shambner, and not gallop faſtly or incompactly."
- "Yes, ’tis the hand / Of death I feel press heavy on my vitals, / Slow sapping the warm current of existence. / My moments now are few—The sand of life / Ebbs fastly to its finish."
Etymology
From Middle English fastly, fastliche, festliche, from Old English fæstlīċe (“firmly, constantly”), from Proto-West Germanic *fastulīkē, from Proto-West Germanic *fastulīkê (“securely, firmly”); equivalent to fast + -ly.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more fastly (comparative)
most fastly (superlative)