militarily
/ˌmɪl.ɪˈtɛɹ.ə.li/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
By way of military or otherwise belligerent means.
adv
In a manner relating to the military or military matters.
Example Sentences
- "The borders of the empire were expanded militarily over the course of many wars of conquest."
- "At the very moment when their petty-bourgeois counterparts were coming to power elsewhere in Africa, these Mozambicans found the Portuguese turning their backs on neocolonialism and digging in their heels militarily against any such denouement to their rule."
- "2007 Ranjit Matthews, Re: Senator calls for Mecca and Medina to be nuked in retaliation Group: soc.culture.indian If it were, it would lose because you can't defeat a religion militarily. You can. Jahaliya was cleansed out of Arabia. More recently, Sufism was eliminated in the Hejaz. Kafirism was wiped out in Kafiristan (Nuristan)."
- "Whether [Israel's] blockade [of Gaza] is militarily justified is a point of contention."
Etymology
Etymology tree English military 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 militarily From military + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmɪl.ɪˈtɛɹ.ə.li/
- British English: /ˈmɪl.ɪ.t(ə.)ɹə.li/
Inflected Forms
more militarily (comparative)
most militarily (superlative)