-lysuffix
uk/ -li/us/ -li/-ly suffix (ADVERB)
in the stated way:
quickly
carefully
angrily
loudly
when considered in the stated way:
Personally (= in my opinion), I don't think animals should be killed for their fur.
This is an environmentally (= in relation to the environment) disastrous proposal.
regularly after the stated period of time:
a weekly/monthly meeting
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Thinking and contemplating
- agonize over/about sth
- chew
- chew sth over
- chew the cud idiom
- chew your cud idiom
- depth
- joined-up thinking
- lateral thinking
- let me see/let's see idiom
- let's see idiom
- meditate
- puzzle
- rack
- reflect
- the thought crosses sb's mind idiom
- think sth out
- think sth over
- think sth through
- thinking
- worry
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Frequency & regularity - general words
-ly suffix (ADJECTIVE)
like the stated person or thing:
fatherly advice
priestly duties
cowardly behaviour
used for indicating one of a series of events that happen with the stated regular period of time between each:
a daily shower
a weekly meeting
a yearly check-up
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Similar and the same
- a level playing field idiom
- affinity
- akin
- alike
- allied
- approach
- clock
- difference
- equal
- every inch idiom
- firm
- homogeneous
- homogenous
- identical
- inch
- Rome
- same
- same difference idiom
- same old same old idiom
- sameness
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Relating to regular periods of time