| 单词 | familiarly |
| 释义 | familiarly (once / 1754 pages) adv When you do something in an informal or very personal way, you do it familiarly. Your grandma might greet you familiarly by saying, "Hi, sweetheart!" Something that's familiar is either well known or very informal and intimate. The adverb familiarly describes things that are said and done in a familiar way. If the news reports on something in a familiarly sensationalist way, it's a type of reporting that you see all the time. But if your best friend hugs you familiarly, he does it lovingly. It's not surprising that familiarly shares a Latin root with family. WORD FAMILYfamiliar: familiarise, familiarity, familiarize, familiarly, familiars, overfamiliar, unfamiliar+/familiarise: familiarisation, familiarised, familiarises, familiarising/familiarity: familiarities/familiarize: familiarization, familiarized, familiarizes, familiarizing/unfamiliar: unfamiliarity, unfamiliarly/unfamiliarity: unfamiliarities USAGE EXAMPLESThe stacks of paper in the office rise familiarly around him; his assistant, Ida Van Lindt, has been with him since he became district attorney. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) And once we switched off the antigravity treadmill, I was very familiarly grounded on this planet. National Geographic(Oct 28, 2016) When the official FBI homicide numbers for 2015 were released recently, Kansas City fell into a familiarly awful position. Washington Times(Oct 11, 2016) adv in an intimately familiar manner Sid, as he was familiarly known by his friends, was one of the most respected and devoted members of the socialist minority group |
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