tearily
/ˈtɪɹɪli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When Danna Walker left the second-floor conference room and returned tearily to her desk — where someone had already deposited a packing box for her belongings — her first thought was not of the 14 years she had worked for DHL or the loss of her $37,000-a-year salary."
- "That's so funny. The cop up there, [the] border patrol officer, like, tearily recounting the incident, y'know? How he nearly died? God, that's funny."
Etymology
From teary + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɪɹɪli/
- British English: /ˈtɪəɹɪli/
Inflected Forms
more tearily (comparative)
most tearily (superlative)