precipitately
/pɹɪˈsɪ.pɪ.tət.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a precipitate manner.
Example Sentences
- "She sains herself, and the thief takes to flight so precipitately as to leave behind her a copper pan of a form never seen before."
- "He talked precipitately, and I did not try to stop him."
- ""That's that!" said Mailey, folding up the paper. "Now, Mr. Thomas Didymus, I leave you to your conclusions," and the enthusiast vanished out of the office as precipitately as he had entered."
- "Nawnim rushed into the bedroom so precipitately that he nearly crashed into the bed."
- "Despite their pre-war pioneering work in diesel rail traction, the Germans did not precipitately dieselise their own national system as soon as post-war opportunity offered."
Etymology
Etymology tree English precipitate Middle English -ly English -ly English precipitately From precipitate + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more precipitately (comparative)
most precipitately (superlative)