horizontally
/hˌɔɹɪzˈɑntəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a horizontal direction or position.
adv
In a horizontal manner (any sense).
Example Sentences
- "Japanese can be written horizontally as well as vertically."
- "Moreover, recent research showed that the amount of genetic material that can be moved horizontally may include small gene fragments, entire operons, superoperons that encode complex biochemical pathways, and whole chromosomes [ 54 ]."
- "an organism transmitted horizontally"
Etymology
Etymology tree English horizontal Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English horizontally From horizontal + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more horizontally (comparative)
most horizontally (superlative)