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gardenly

gardenly adjective: like a garden.

Adjective

gardenly (comparative more gardenly, superlative most gardenly)

  1. Like a garden.
    • Pulse […] are, in the ordinary practice of the district, planted by women, and hoed by women and children, once, twice, and sometimes thrice; giving the crop, when the soil is sufficiently free from root weeds, a gardenly appearance; which is beautiful to the eye, in the former part of the summer...1796, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Glocestershire

Forms of gardenly

comparativemore gardenly
superlativemost gardenly

Origin of gardenly

From garden + -ly.

Questions about gardenly

What does gardenly mean?
Gardenly means like a garden.
What part of speech is gardenly?
Gardenly is an adjective.

Words near gardenly in the dictionary

  1. gardenized
  2. gardenizes
  3. gardenizing
  4. gardenless
  5. gardenlike
  6. gardenly
  7. gardenmaker
  8. gardenmakers
  9. gardenmaking
  10. gardenoside
  11. gardenry

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