Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

feastly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: feast-ly
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.

Example Sentences

"So my old man, he says Lord thank you for this feastly grub that the relatives worked so hard for […]"
"Royal entrances not only provide for feast and, implicitly, collective feastly behaviour but they themselves are feasts equivalent with the ordinary feasts on the agenda of a particular place."

Etymology

From Middle English festlich, equivalent to feast + -ly. Compare Dutch feestelijk (“festive”), German festlich (“festive, solemn”), Danish and Swedish festlig (“festive, solemn”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: festlich
Suffix: feast

Inflected Forms

more feastly (comparative) most feastly (superlative)

Questions

What does feastly mean?: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
Where does feastly come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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