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paraphrastically

paraphrastically adverb: in a paraphrastic manner.

Adverb

paraphrastically (comparative more paraphrastically, superlative most paraphrastically)

  1. In a paraphrastic manner.

Forms of paraphrastically

comparativemore paraphrastically
superlativemost paraphrastically

Origin of paraphrastically

From paraphrastic + -ally.

Questions about paraphrastically

What does paraphrastically mean?
Paraphrastically means in a paraphrastic manner.
What part of speech is paraphrastically?
Paraphrastically is an adverb.

Words near paraphrastically in the dictionary

  1. paraphrasist
  2. paraphrasists
  3. paraphrast
  4. paraphrastic
  5. paraphrastical
  6. paraphrastically
  7. paraphrasts
  8. paraphrenia
  9. paraphrenias
  10. paraphrenic
  11. paraphrenics

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