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metally

metally adjective: metallic.

Adjective

metally (comparative more metally, superlative most metally)

  1. metallic
    • Yet in days long past, but soon, we hope, to return, these quarters had a metally ring and were standard silver 900-1000th fine.1864, Friends' Intelligencer, volume 20, page 589
  2. Resembling metal music.

Forms of metally

comparativemore metally
superlativemost metally

Origin of metally

From metal + -y.

Words formed from metally

Questions about metally

What does metally mean?
Metally means metallic.
What part of speech is metally?
Metally is an adjective.

Words near metally in the dictionary

  1. metallurgically
  2. metallurgies
  3. metallurgist
  4. metallurgists
  5. metallurgy
  6. metally
  7. metalmaking
  8. metalman
  9. metalmark
  10. metalmark moth
  11. metalmark moths

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