visually
/ˈvɪzju.əli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
By means of sight.
Example Sentences
- "The radar's detection was confirmed visually, because seeing is believing."
- "He explained that engineers had been able to examine the bridge visually, and had started surveying likely sites for access roads and where to place the heavyweight crawler crane. NR was also ordering the aggregates needed for the access roads."
Etymology
Etymology tree English visual 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 English -ly English visually From visual + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more visually (comparative)
most visually (superlative)