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tartarly

tartarly adjective: fearsome and aggressive.

Adjective

tartarly (comparative more tartarly, superlative most tartarly)

  1. (obsolete) fearsome and aggressive
    • "Of course you and your father will do what is proper," she said, putting on that air of sulphuric-acid sweetness which so many tartarly people have at command, and which profits them so little.1871 May, “Kate Beaumont”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 27, page 576

tartarly meaning in Tamil

tartarly in Tamil

தார்த்தாரிய இனத்தவர் போன்ற, முரடுயரான கொடுந் தோற்றமுடைய

Forms of tartarly

comparativemore tartarly
superlativemost tartarly

Origin of tartarly

From tartar + -ly.

Questions about tartarly

What does tartarly mean?
Tartarly means fearsome and aggressive.
What is tartarly in Tamil?
Tartarly in Tamil is தார்த்தாரிய இனத்தவர் போன்ற, முரடுயரான கொடுந் தோற்றமுடைய. See Tartarly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tartarly?
Tartarly is an adjective.

Words near tartarly in the dictionary

  1. tartarize
  2. tartarized
  3. tartarizes
  4. tartarizing
  5. tartarlike
  6. tartarly
  7. tartaroborate
  8. tartaroborates
  9. Tartarology
  10. tartarous
  11. tartars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tartarly (page history and authors); Tartarly (Tamil 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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