Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heartlessly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English

Syllables: heart-less-ly
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a heartless manner.

Example Sentences

"It is the habit of heartlessly pecking at these that shows a soul that is blasé. Of late, for example, it has been a fashion with a small minority of British writers to assert their culture by a very supercilious demeanour towards an idea which ought, beyond all others, to be sacred in this island—the idea of Liberty."
"As you recover from Junkspace, Junkspace recovers from you: between 2 and 5 a.m., yet another population, this one heartlessly casual and appreciably darker, is mopping, hoovering, sweeping, toweling, resupplying."

Etymology

Etymology tree English heartless Middle English -ly English -ly English heartlessly From heartless + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more heartlessly (comparative) most heartlessly (superlative)

Questions

What does heartlessly mean?: In a heartless manner.
Where does heartlessly come from?: Etymology tree English heartless Middle English -ly English -ly English heartlessly From heartless + -ly.

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