adv
Meaning 1
In a devilish manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
devilishly
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CMU ARPABET: D EH1 V AH0 L IH0 SH L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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adv
Meaning 2
Very, problematically.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
(used as intensives) extremely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she was madly in love
- deadly dull
- deadly earnest
- deucedly clever
- insanely jealous
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
in a playfully devilish manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the socialists are further handicapped if they believe that capitalists are not only wicked but also devilishly clever
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: devilish
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 5
as a devil; in an evil manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his writing could be diabolically satiric
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: diabolically, fiendishly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English devilish Middle English -ly English -ly English devilishly From devilish + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: diabòlicament — in a devilish manner
- Macedonian: ѓаволесто (ǵavolesto) — in a devilish manner
- Macedonian: ѓаволски (ǵavolski) — in a devilish manner
- Russian: черто́вски (čertóvski) — in a devilish manner
- Russian: дья́вольски (dʹjávolʹski) — in a devilish manner
- Spanish: diabólicamente — in a devilish manner
- Walloon: diålmint — in a devilish manner
- Walloon: diåldimint — in a devilish manner