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alertly

alertly adverb: in an alert manner; with alertness.

Adverb

alertly (comparative more alertly, superlative most alertly)

  1. In an alert manner; with alertness.
    • Behind one of the old oaks which we have described in the preceding chapter, shrouding himself from observation like a hunter watching for his game, or an Indian for his enemy, but with different, very different purpose, Tyrrel lay on his breast near the Buck-stane, his eye on the horse-road which...1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], chapter 9, in St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable...
    • I walked fast to avoid being overtaken. Every crossing was a danger, every passenger a thing to watch alertly.1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 23, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC

alertly meaning in Tamil

alertly in Tamil

விழிப்புடன், எச்சரிக்கையுடன்

Examples of alertly in a sentence

  • I was about to speak when she sat up alertly and said “Sh!” in a warning voice.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN:
  • She was wearing tight white shorts and a grey tank top of Jasper’s, in which her small breasts moved alertly.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

Forms of alertly

comparativemore alertly
superlativemost alertly

Origin of alertly

From alert + -ly.

Questions about alertly

What does alertly mean?
Alertly means in an alert manner; with alertness.
What is alertly in Tamil?
Alertly in Tamil is விழிப்புடன், எச்சரிக்கையுடன். See Alertly meaning in Tamil.
How do you use alertly in a sentence?
I was about to speak when she sat up alertly and said “Sh!” in a warning voice.
What part of speech is alertly?
Alertly is an adverb.

Words near alertly in the dictionary

  1. alerters
  2. alertest
  3. alertful
  4. alerting
  5. alertless
  6. alertly
  7. alertness
  8. alertnesses
  9. alerts
  10. ales
  11. Aleses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alertly (page history and authors); alertly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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