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hastely

hastely adverb: hastily.

Adverb

hastely (comparative more hastely, superlative most hastely)

  1. (obsolete) Hastily.
    • But this good knight soone as he them can spie, / For the coole shade him thither hastly got […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of hastely

comparativemore hastely
superlativemost hastely
alternative formhastly

Origin of hastely

From haste + -ly.

Questions about hastely

What does hastely mean?
Hastely means hastily.
What part of speech is hastely?
Hastely is an adverb.

Words near hastely in the dictionary

  1. hasteful
  2. hasteless
  3. hastelessness
  4. Hastelloy
  5. Hastelloys
  6. hastely
  7. hasten
  8. hastened
  9. hastener
  10. hasteners
  11. hastenest

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