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hurriedly

Syllables: hur·ried·ly/ˈhʌɹɪdli/US/ˈhɝɪdli/

hurriedly adverb: in a hurried manner.

Adverb

hurriedly (comparative more hurriedly, superlative most hurriedly)

  1. In a hurried manner.
    • The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of...1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71
    • “In a moment, he has torn the letter into long thin strips, and rolling them up into spills he thrusts them hurriedly in amongst the other spills in the vase on the mantle-piece.”1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 182

hurriedly meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

hurriedly in Tamil

அவசரமாக, அவசரமாய்

hurriedly in Urdu

جلد بازی سے

hurriedly in Bengali

in a hurried manner
জলদি jôldi

hurriedly in Malayalam

quickly, hastily, speedily
ധൃതിയിൽ, ഝടിതിയിൽ, ബദ്ധപ്പാടോടെ, ബദ്ധപെ്പട്ട്, അമ്പോട്, തിടുക്കത്തിൽ
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hurriedly in Kannada
ಚಡಪಡನೆ, ಚಡವುಡನೆ, ಚಡುಪಡನೆ, ಚಡುವುಡನೆ

Examples of hurriedly in a sentence

  • But Johnson [...] hurriedly [c]hanged his plea to guilty.1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 96:
  • The result was that trains ran as normal on November 7 and 9, although there was still disruption on Saturday November 5, owing to the short notice as rosters were hurriedly rewritten.2022 November 16, Mel Holley, “Network News: Rail strikes halted to allow for "intensive negotiations"”, in RAIL, number 970, page 8:

All 25 example sentences with hurriedly

Forms of hurriedly

comparativemore hurriedly
superlativemost hurriedly

Origin of hurriedly

From hurried + -ly.

Questions about hurriedly

What does hurriedly mean?
Hurriedly means in a hurried manner.
What is hurriedly in Tamil?
Hurriedly in Tamil is அவசரமாக, அவசரமாய். See Hurriedly meaning in Tamil.
How do you use hurriedly in a sentence?
But Johnson [...] hurriedly [c]hanged his plea to guilty.
What part of speech is hurriedly?
Hurriedly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce hurriedly?
Hurriedly is pronounced /ˈhɝɪdli/ (US).

Words near hurriedly in the dictionary

  1. hurricans
  2. hurried
  3. hurried up
  4. hurried up and waited
  5. hurried up the cakes
  6. hurriedly
  7. hurriedness
  8. hurrier
  9. hurriers
  10. hurries
  11. hurries up

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hurriedly (page history and authors); hurriedly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hurriedly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hurriedly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hurriedly (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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