telegraphically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
By means of telegraphy.
Example Sentences
- "The police transmitted a description of the suspect telegraphically."
- "To and fro during the festivities complimentary and congratulatory messages kept going and coming, and from the entire telegraphically-connected parts of the globe messages flowed in at either end, expressing the joy of the civilized world that the belt of electrical communication was complete."
- "Her son's letters were always telegraphically brief and to the point."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. French télé- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γράφος (-gráphos)bor. Latin -graphuslbor. French -graphe French télégraphebor. English telegraph Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English telegraphic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al 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 -ally English -ally English telegraphically From telegraphic + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more telegraphically (comparative)
most telegraphically (superlative)