lifely
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But since there is no other universal language of grammar, a middle course can be taken, and the English grammar may be taught according to a more lifely classification, and in a more lifely language; […]"
- "Every breathsome being is lifely, Every man is a breathsome being, Every man is lifely."
- "We are, in comparison, much as mischievous adolescents in their self-conscious age of realization (in their fresh sequence of lifely development) for, too, our species has been shunted through the prevailing pessimism and accomplished the seemingly impossible metamorphosis of our progenitor's obsession: to produce a better specimen in the unfolding continuance of the species."
- "This is only a fashion and will change. Try to find out what colours make you look more lifely and more healthy."
- "“Apparently, when everyone reluctantly explained their various lifely circumstances, you made no comments whatsoever. Were you perhaps ashamed or disgusted by what you were told?” “Most certainly not!” indignantly assured Madavena. “Instead, I was overcome with surprised admiration! I suddenly realised that my seemingly ordinary family had experienced every lifely situation imaginable!"
- "Unslain fro thee, which ay us lifely herteth, With books of his ornat enditing That is to all this land enlumining."
Etymology
From Middle English lifly, lyfly, lyflich, from Old English līflīċ (“living; vital”), equivalent to life + -ly. Doublet of lively and lifelike.
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Inflected Forms
more lifely (comparative)
most lifely (superlative)