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archaically

archaically adverb: in an archaic manner.

Adverb

archaically (comparative more archaically, superlative most archaically)

  1. In an archaic manner.
    • The games are a bit archaically presented, but they include palindromes, acrostics, higgledy-piggledies, anagrams, etc.1994, Herbert Kohl, Masters' Word Game Collection, page 249

Forms of archaically

comparativemore archaically
superlativemost archaically

Origin of archaically

From archaic + -ally.

Questions about archaically

What does archaically mean?
Archaically means in an archaic manner.
What part of speech is archaically?
Archaically is an adverb.

Words near archaically in the dictionary

  1. Archaic Greek
  2. Archaic Latin
  3. archaic smile
  4. archaic smiles
  5. archaical
  6. archaically
  7. archaicise
  8. archaicised
  9. archaicises
  10. archaicising
  11. archaicism

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