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deedily

deedily adverb: industriously; diligently.

Adverb

deedily (comparative more deedily, superlative most deedily)

  1. Industriously; diligently.
    • The appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was tranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment, slumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near her, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax, standing with her back to them...1816, Jane Austen, Emma
    • The fields are very spacious and the views are very wide, / And steadily and deedily the little horses go: […]Kenneth H. Ashley, Eyes on the Wolds, in: 1923, Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, The London Mercury (volume 9)

Forms of deedily

comparativemore deedily
superlativemost deedily

Origin of deedily

From deedy + -ly.

Questions about deedily

What does deedily mean?
Deedily means industriously; diligently.
What part of speech is deedily?
Deedily is an adverb.

Words near deedily in the dictionary

  1. deedholder
  2. deedholders
  3. deedholding
  4. deedier
  5. deediest
  6. deedily
  7. deediness
  8. deeding
  9. deedlee ball
  10. deedlee balls
  11. deedless

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