islandly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I walk in the chalk-white light on the limestone path in the grasses, Away past the populous park with the horn-blasting, raucous recordings, Strolling past hollyhock rows with the powder of gold on their noses, I find me an islandly place shadow-laced by a leafy umbrella, [...]"
- "… paddled by lavalava clad men, numerous press motorboats, a few Hobies and windsurfers, and one police motorboat accompanied the 40-foot double-hulled canoe that carried Santos and her attendants, pageant officials, and an "islandly" Triton trumpeteer to the coronation site."
- ""[...] He's waiting to be buried. All the usual, dependable, un-islandly things. You understand.""
- "She explains that "Thaxter invites the onlooker to relinquish self-consciousness, to view the familiar sea and islands 'islandly,' as she does."
- "Gaunilo's point was that if the argument was a good one, it could just as easily be used to prove the existence of a Greatest Conceivable Island. After all, a GCI has all possible islandly perfections, such as maximally white sand, perfect surfing waves, delicious coconuts, and so forth."
Etymology
From island + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more islandly (comparative)
most islandly (superlative)