sagely
/ˈseɪd͡ʒli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a sage.
Example Sentences
- "[…] Phil offering and giving advice sagely and gravely"
- "This pro-war impression on the populace the Navy Department sagely foresaw when it sent its men into the unbriny Northwest."
- "The sheikh comes back in, and slowly, we can become a little more personal in our discussion and he nods sagely and then renods."
- "Dr. Ed Wheat has sagely said, “Every physical union should be a contest to see which partner can outplease the other.”"
- ""Hiiiiiiiiiii!" She shuffled towards me in her silver slippers. "I um, heard about the DPS race yesterday! Can't believe you defeated Grumf!" She laughed, then stabbed the air with an imanginary sword. "Wish I could've seen that! I mean, he's not some noob, you know! He's a Diamond-ranked adventurer. Sage Lukas nodded his head sagely. "Your victory has motivated other guild members to try out your peculiar strategy. There have been several positive reports so far...""
- "It begins sufficiently well, but the author has hardly enunciated his preliminary apotheems, when he conducts into an obscurity where we can hardly grope our way, and when we emerge from that, it is to be bewildered by his gorgeous but unsubstantial pictures of sagely perfection."
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Inflected Forms
more sagely (comparative)
most sagely (superlative)