glacially
/ˈɡleɪʃɪəli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a (literally or figuratively) icy manner; icily.
Example Sentences
- "‘Monsieur,’ Louis XV glacially remarked to Choiseul days before the dénouement, ‘I told you that I did not want war.’"
- "Played acoustically, glacially paced and sung in Kristofferson’s parched, age-weathered voice, even his more lighthearted songs – Jesus Was a Capricorn, Best Of All Possible Worlds – were leant an eerie gravitas, while Me and Bobby McGee and Sunday Morning Coming Down sounded heartbreakingly careworn and poignant."
- "The daunting problem is that the incidence of tuberculosis has declined only glacially (at a rate of 1.0 to 1.5% per year) and in some places may be increasing."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈɡleɪʃɪəli/
Inflected Forms
more glacially (comparative)
most glacially (superlative)