straightly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "A farmer in Hampshire was sorely distressed by the unsettling of his barn. However straightly over-night he laid his sheaves on the threshing-floor for the application of the morning's flail, when morning came, all was topsy-turvy, higgledy-piggledy, though the door remained locked, and there was no sign whatever of irregular entry."
- "[…] I was directing my course towards it, as straightly and as speedily as the windings of a very indifferent road would permit, […]"
- "[W]hẽ the vnclene ſpritꝭ ſawe him⸝ they fell doune before him⸝ and cryed ſayinge: thou arte the ſonne of God: And he ſtreyghtly charged thẽ that they ſhulde not vtter him."
- "After an hour or so the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight. We observed them straightly, and lo! they were cutters-off of the highway, wild as wild Arabs."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more straightly (comparative)
most straightly (superlative)