steelily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My aunt looked at her daughter; brilliant of complexion, coldly and steelily handsome at eighteen—why should she not have admirers?"
- "'Meat,' he said steelily. 'I was right. It was a bloody butcher's knife that bastard tried to rearrange me with.'"
- "2016, Anne Fogarty, Chapter 1: ‘A World of Hotels and Gaols’, Paige Reynolds (editor), Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture, Wimbledon Publishing Company (Anthem Press), page 19, As she steelily lives through the death of Christy, she recognizes that she herself now moves irretrievably 'in a world of hotels and gaols' (145)."
Etymology
From steely + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more steelily (comparative)
most steelily (superlative)