Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

transitorily

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tran-si-to-ri-ly
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a transitory way.

Example Sentences

"With regard to similes of this kind, it will readily occur to the reader that when a resembling subject is once properly introduced in a simile, the mind is transitorily amused with the new object, and is not dissatisfied with the slight interruption."
"All parts of the experienced world are experienced transitorily. They appear and disappear."
"Most transitorily poor households are substantially better off than chronically poor households."
"It is not a permanent space: it transitorily colonizes public urban space, overlapping and somehow replacing it."

Etymology

Etymology tree English transitory Middle English -ly English -ly English transitorily From transitory + -ly.

Synonyms

fleetingly temporarily transiently

Questions

What does transitorily mean?: In a transitory way.
Where does transitorily come from?: Etymology tree English transitory Middle English -ly English -ly English transitorily From transitory + -ly.

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