adv
Meaning 1
In a dry 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
dryly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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drīʹli
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/ˈdɹaɪ.li/
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rhymes with -aɪli
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CMU ARPABET: D R AY1 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adverb
Meaning 2
in a dry laconic manner he said dryly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I know that,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: laconically, drily
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English dry 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 dryly From dry + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: хладно (hladno) — in a dry manner
- Bulgarian: безчувствено (bezčuvstveno) — in a dry manner
- Catalan: eixutament — in a dry manner
- Catalan: secament — in a dry manner
- Dutch: droogjes — in a dry manner
- Dutch: droogweg — in a dry manner
- Finnish: kuivasti — in a dry manner
- French: sèchement — in a dry manner
- Galician: secamente — in a dry manner
- Latvian: sausi — in a dry manner
- Polish: sucho — in a dry manner
- Portuguese: secamente — in a dry manner
- Romanian: sec — in a dry manner
- Romanian: uscat — in a dry manner
- Russian: су́хо (súxo) — in a dry manner
- Spanish: secamente — in a dry manner