skyly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, resembling, or relating to the sky; celestial
Example Sentences
- "O sweet Queen-city of the golden South Piercing the evening with thy star-like spires, Thou wert a witness when I kissed the mouth Of her whose eyes outblazed the skyly fires."
- "It is not to claim that biology fixes human existence, but rather to claim that "the way of life articulates itself has as much to do with the response of other nonhuman beings, with the currents of the earthly and skyly environment, and with temporal contingencies, as it does with our subjectivist cultural wills.""
- "Nightly prayers in the sky, Skyly stories linger high […]"
Etymology
From sky + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more skyly (comparative)
most skyly (superlative)