Comments on: Thirty-seven Adjectives Ending in -ly

By: The Ridger

The Ridger — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:01:08 +0000

Most such adjectives are built by adding -ly to a noun, in the same fashion that adding it to an adjective makes an adverb, it meaning (roughly) “like”.

What I find fascinating are the ones that are built from a word that’s already an adjective, like “goodly, kindly, poorly”…

By: Tata Lee

Tata Lee — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:16:46 +0000

What about ” likely” ?

By: yaamalaiah

yaamalaiah — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:27:01 +0000

another word that can be added is

‘cowardly’

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:24:11 +0000

Sorry – you forgot heavenly.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:23:46 +0000

@Robin: See #19.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:03:06 +0000

You forgot deadly.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:43:43 +0000

Surly Boyd, huh? .. and a certain jackass being pulled out of class – ahh the days …

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:43:16 +0000

Ok, as I was going to sleep last night I thought of a whole slew of rhyming ones, so I’ll add them myself.

early burly pearly swirly squirrelly girly SURLY!

(Heh, that makes me surly. Maybe two of you will remember why this is funny.)

And worldly, which nearly rhymes. I was going to include churly (= churlish), but (per Google) it’s used exceedingly rarely. Pity.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:55:10 +0000

Yup. I was testing the “more” command to make sure I could hide things. Hence the title. I thought I’d published it as “private,” but I guess not. At any rate, the real post is up now.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:44:03 +0000

Umm … this is what I see:

Testing

This is the first line.

And this part is hidden.