shrewdly
/ˈʃɹuːdliː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English schrewed 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 Middle English schrewedly English shrewdly Inherited from Middle English schrewedly (“wickedly, harshly”). By surface analysis, shrewd + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more shrewdly (comparative)
most shrewdly (superlative)