Word.ws English Dictionary

portlily

portlily adverb: in a portly manner.

Adverb

portlily (comparative more portlily, superlative most portlily)

  1. In a portly manner.

Forms of portlily

comparativemore portlily
superlativemost portlily

Origin of portlily

From portly + -ly.

Questions about portlily

What does portlily mean?
Portlily means in a portly manner.
What part of speech is portlily?
Portlily is an adverb.

Words near portlily in the dictionary

  1. portlier
  2. portliest
  3. portlight
  4. portlights
  5. portlike
  6. portlily
  7. portliness
  8. Portlock
  9. Portlocks
  10. Portloe
  11. portly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: portlily (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “portlily.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/portlily. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.