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Meaning of "dottily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DOTTILY

dottily  [ˈdɒtɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOTTILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dottily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES DOTTILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dottily in the English dictionary

The definition of dottily in the dictionary is in a humorously foolish way.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DOTTILY


Chantilly
ʃænˈtɪlɪ
cotyle
ˈkɒtɪlɪ
craftily
ˈkrɑːftɪlɪ
guiltily
ˈɡɪltɪlɪ
hastily
ˈheɪstɪlɪ
haughtily
ˈhɔːtɪlɪ
heartily
ˈhɑːtɪlɪ
knottily
ˈnɒtɪlɪ
lustily
ˈlʌstɪlɪ
mightily
ˈmaɪtɪlɪ
nastily
ˈnɑːstɪlɪ
naughtily
ˈnɔːtɪlɪ
polydactyly
ˌpɒlɪˈdæktɪlɪ
scantily
ˈskæntɪlɪ
snottily
ˈsnɒtɪlɪ
spottily
ˈspɒtɪlɪ
squattily
ˈskwɒtɪlɪ
Tilley
ˈtɪlɪ
Tilly
ˈtɪlɪ
wittily
ˈwɪtɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOTTILY

dote
doter
doth
doting
dotingly
dotish
dotted
dotted line
dottel
dotter
dotterel
dottier
dottiest
dottiness
dotting
dottle
dottled
dottrel
dotty
doty

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOTTILY

cattily
chattily
fattily
grittily
jauntily
loftily
nattily
nuttily
pettily
prettily
rattily
ruttily
scattily
shittily
smuttily
tattily
testily
throatily
unwittily
weightily

Synonyms and antonyms of dottily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dottily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DOTTILY

Find out the translation of dottily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dottily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dottily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

dottily
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dottily
570 millions of speakers

English

dottily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dottily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

dottily
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

dottily
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dottily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dottily
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dottily
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dottily
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dottily
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

dottily
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dottily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dottily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dottily
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dottily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धूर्तपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dottily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dottily
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dottily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

dottily
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dottily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

dottily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dottily
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dottily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dottily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dottily

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DOTTILY»

The term «dottily» is used very little and occupies the 159.345 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DOTTILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dottily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dottily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dottily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOTTILY»

Discover the use of dottily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dottily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
On the other hand, nothing could be more unsatisfactory than the style of Hermit, so stiffly, dottily did he move, without one particle of freedom or seeming power of extension in his stride. Vauban, The Palmer, Van Amburgh, Grand Cross, and ...
2
Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes
On the other hand, nothing could be more unsatisfactory than the st le of Hermit, so stiflly, dottily did he move, without one particllle of freedom or seeming power of extension in his stride. Vauban, The Palmer, Van Amburgh, Grand Cross, and  ...
3
Difference In View: Women And Modernism
She observes that 'the parsons who write to the papers to say that England holds commission from heaven to colonize the earth must surely be dottily overlooking the Jameson Raid and the Rand Kaffir business' (Smith, 1982); she compares ...
Gabriele Griffin, 2003
4
Men and Women Writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of ...
Less than starry-eyed about the British Empire, Pompey observes drily that 'the parsons who write to the papers to say that England holds commission from heaven to colonize the earth must surely be dottily overlooking the Jameson Raid and ...
Janet Montefiore, 2003
5
Oh My Darling Daughter
It was a brisk, bright, Friday morning, and the stalls were out, gay with daffodils and patterned stuffs and scarves and dresses, loud with the shouts of the stallholders, dogs ran dottily in the wind, a sheet of coloured paper was lifted above the ...
Eric Malpass, 2001
6
Indiana Winter
We know that matter is dottily chaotic, but the human brain won't let that be so. We tie things together in nets — that clump of dots a table, this clump of light myself. The human mind both fights chaos and welcomes it, and it's maybe the simile ...
Susan Neville, 1994
7
Among the Janeites
“I remember when the doings of both the English jane Austen Society and jASNA used to be the province ofthe educated, congenial, delightfully slightly dottily eccentric amateur and enthusiast,” wrote another janeites participant. “Today the jA ...
Deborah Yaffe, 2013
8
Current Retail Trade Reports: Monthly retail trade
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9
Please Come Back to Me
... then resumed darting and slapping with a louder, sharper energy because they were being watched. The game was dottily lighted by the moon and stars, and by four bulbs strung on a parade of extension cords around the. 33 Dear Nicole.
Jessica Treadway, 2012
10
Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger
Indeed, one American writer described the Pearl of the Antilles as "stark raving dottily crazy over baseball."17 Baseball also expanded into other Caribbean regions. But it did so during an era when many islanders resented U.S. hegemony.
Samuel Octavio Regalado, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOTTILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dottily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Emily Carr rises above the Group at AGO show
More likely than not, that's at least part of the reason history likes to remember her as a dottily eccentric outsider. The show pushes all that aside ... «OurWindsor.ca, Apr 15»
2
How Checkbook Art History Elevated Gustav Klimt To The $100 …
He described some of Klimt's later works as "dottily erotic." He said The Kiss and other Klimt works showed "the essence of the vulgar fraud that ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»
3
'Henry IV' Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London
Paola Dionisotti makes a dottily endearing Mistress Quickly. And what a pleasure to see the veteran British actor Oliver Ford Davies, whose ... «New York Times, Dec 14»
4
Fathers and Sons review: Gentle laughs bridge the generation gap
He, Jack McMullen as the servant Piotr and Susan Engel as the dottily imperious Princess Olga ("Do you like October, Olga?" "I detest every ... «Express.co.uk, Jun 14»
5
Elizabeth Is Missing review – Emma Healey's dementia detective story
Maud dottily buys many, many cans of peaches. That the narrative is constantly engaging is down to Healey's gift for recruiting the minutiae of ... «The Guardian, Jun 14»
6
Robbie Williams: One Night At The Palladium, Live At The Apollo …
But if it's a sparky, surreal experience you're after, check out Alan Carr (C4, 10pm), whose guest list is topped by the dottily brilliant Lady Gaga, ... «Metro, Dec 13»
7
Did Adam and Eve Speak Hebrew in the Garden of Eden?
Any contemporary theory dottily arguing that Hebrew, whether spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden or by someone elsewhere, was ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Nov 13»
8
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert – review
The novel takes its title from Jakob Böhme's The Signature of All Things (1622), a work that enthrals Alma's dottily mystical husband, Ambrose ... «The Guardian, Oct 13»
9
QUENTIN LETTS: Danny Alexander gobbled sentences like a man …
Because they look so middle-class, so dottily British, so damson jam and Lady Magazine and walking sticks and gravel in the drive, you forget ... «Daily Mail, Sep 13»
10
Thark – review
is followed by a dottily superfluous description of them by her nephew as: "Yes, you know, colourful and gay at the top and peter off to nothing at ... «The Guardian, Aug 13»

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