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disasterly

disasterly adverb: disastrously.

Adverb

disasterly (comparative more disasterly, superlative most disasterly)

  1. (obsolete) disastrously
    • Thy noble breast disasterly possesse1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, published 1613

Forms of disasterly

comparativemore disasterly
superlativemost disasterly

Origin of disasterly

From disaster + -ly.

Questions about disasterly

What does disasterly mean?
Disasterly means disastrously.
What part of speech is disasterly?
Disasterly is an adverb.

Words near disasterly in the dictionary

  1. disaster waiting to happen
  2. Disaster Year
  3. disasterclass
  4. disasterclasses
  5. disasterless
  6. disasterly
  7. disasteroid
  8. disasteroids
  9. disasterology
  10. disasterous
  11. disasterously

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