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compactly

compactly adverb: in a compact manner.

Adverb

compactly (comparative more compactly, superlative most compactly)

  1. In a compact manner
    • she is of middle size, stiffly made, body long, legs short, bust much developed but not compactly moulded, waist disproportionately compressed by an inhumanly braced corset, dress carefully arranged, large feet tortured into small bottines, head small, hair smoothed, braided, oiled, and gummed to...a. 1856 (date written), Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], edited by A[rthur] B[ell] Nicholls, The Professor, a Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co....
    • Old Kipps glanced at her over his spectacles. "You ain't comfortable, my gal, in this world, not if you don't live up to your position," so putting compactly into contemporary English that fine old phrase, noblesse oblige.1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps

compactly meaning in Tamil

compactly in Tamil

அவுசாக

Forms of compactly

comparativemore compactly
superlativemost compactly

Origin of compactly

From compact + -ly.

Questions about compactly

What does compactly mean?
Compactly means in a compact manner.
What is compactly in Tamil?
Compactly in Tamil is அவுசாக. See Compactly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is compactly?
Compactly is an adverb.

Words near compactly in the dictionary

  1. compactituberculate
  2. compactivities
  3. compactivity
  4. compactization
  5. compactizations
  6. compactly
  7. compactness
  8. compactnesses
  9. compacton
  10. compactons
  11. compactor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compactly (page history and authors); compactly (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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