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difficultly

difficultly adverb: with difficulty; not easily.

Adverb

difficultly (comparative more difficultly, superlative most difficultly)

  1. (archaic) With difficulty; not easily.
    • In fact, we regard these efforts as insults on our understanding, and to such the pride of man is very difficultly brought to submit.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Forms of difficultly

comparativemore difficultly
superlativemost difficultly

Origin of difficultly

From difficult + -ly.

Questions about difficultly

What does difficultly mean?
Difficultly means with difficulty; not easily.
What part of speech is difficultly?
Difficultly is an adverb.

Words near difficultly in the dictionary

  1. difficulted
  2. difficulter
  3. difficultest
  4. difficulties
  5. difficulting
  6. difficultly
  7. difficultness
  8. difficults
  9. difficulty
  10. difficulty level
  11. difficulty levels

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