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Definition: Dully |
DullyAdverb1. Without liveliness; "she nodded her head dully". 2. Without luster or shine; "the light shone dully through the haze"; "unpolished buttons glinted dully". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Rose of Sharon looked dully up at Ma. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Dully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dully" is used about 136 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 136 | 27,260 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dully": dully-written. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dully f350 ford truck used | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ثقيل (boring, cumbersome, heaver, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, lumbering, massive, oppressive, ponderous, stodgy, uninteresting, unwieldy, weighty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 愚'地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stumpfsinnige (obtusely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | debolmente (weakly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "하게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ullyday plictisitor (boring, boringly, dead, dreadful, dry, dull, flat, heavy, irksome, jejune, languorous, long winded, long-spun, monotonous, monotonously, pedestrian, pesky, pestersome, pestiferous, repetitious, repetitive, sententious, slow, tedious, tediously, tiresome, trying, weary). (various references) tupo (obtusely). (various references) trögt (slowly). (various references) xỉn (dingy, dull, lustreless, mat), xám ngoẹt đều đều, ngu đần (beef-witted, boeotian, dense, doltish, dull, mutton-headed, nitwitted, stupid, witless), không rõ rệt đục; mờ đục, chán ngắt (dull, dullness, dulness, long-winded, mouldy, pedestrian, prosaic, tedious, wearied, weary), bu"n tẻ (dead-alive, drab, dryasdust, dull, heavy, humdrum, inanimate, jogtrot, ponderous, tame, toneless, waste), đần độn lờ mờ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Dully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dallly, dallyo, delly, Dlugy, dolley, dolli, dollie, doly, dply, dualy, dudly, duelli, duelly, duely, dul, Dulally, dulay, Dulcy, duld, duley, duli, dulle, dulm, Dulyn, Dunley, lully, rully, udly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-l-l-u-y" | |
-1 letter: dull, duly. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-l-l-u-y" | |
+1 letter: dually, loudly. | |
+2 letters: adultly, ducally, fluidly, lucidly, luridly. | |
+3 letters: caudally, cloudily, dulcetly, feudally, laudably, liquidly. | |
+4 letters: direfully, diurnally, dolefully, doomfully, dullishly, dutifully, fluidally, gradually, heedfully, languidly, medullary, mindfully, modularly, needfully, outyelled, squalidly, unalloyed, unworldly. | |
+5 letters: delusively, dolorously, doubtfully, dreadfully, dreamfully, fiducially, illaudably, judicially, pellucidly, phyllodium, pridefully, purblindly, residually, secludedly, sedulously, sluggardly, suicidally, sulfhydryl, underbelly, unladylike, unwieldily. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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