roisterously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a roisterous way.
Example Sentences
- "For at her feet, grubbing in the dirt and not a whit cleaner, crawls a fat, chubby, ink-eyed little urchin, all but nude, and chuckling roisterously with the delight of having just constructed with success a model mud-pie after the universal infantile receipt the wide world over, who glances up at its child-mother and glibly gabbles, “Mamita! mamita !" with roguish glee."
- "Yet he, too, knew all their songs, and sang them along the roads roisterously."
- "Dispatching most of the scientists from the room with a hail of laughter that was part congratulation, part triumph, and all, in its unalloyed arrogance, roisterously appealing and charismatic, he huddled quickly with Tung, Sato, and Livingston to attack the next set of experiments […]"
Etymology
From roisterous + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more roisterously (comparative)
most roisterously (superlative)