Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pretiously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pre-tious-ly
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Obsolete form of preciously.

Obsolete

Etymology

From pretious + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more pretiously (comparative) most pretiously (superlative)

Questions

What does pretiously mean?
Obsolete form of preciously.
Where does pretiously come from?
From pretious + -ly.

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