whitely
/ˈwʌɪtli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
pale-facedly.
Archaic
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "15th c., Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid, lines 213-214, The secund steid to name hecht Ethios, Quhitlie and paill […]"
- "[…] among three to loue the worst of all, / A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow, / With two pitch balles stucke in her face for eyes."
- "I perceive you know him, and am apt to believe also, That you were related one to another; for you have his whitely Look, a Cast like his with your Eye, and your Speech is much alike."
- "[…] she opened a door which disclosed a staircase so whitely scrubbed that the grain of the wood was wellnigh sodden away by such cleansing."
- "it is the autumn of a year: When through the thin air stooped with fear, across the harvest whitely peer empty of surprise death’s faultless eyes"
- "an enemy aeroplane flew part of the way with us, and bomb after bomb burst flaming in the fields alongside, until ‘wished morn’ whitely appeared."
Etymology
From white + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈwʌɪtli/