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youthly

/ˈjuːθli/

youthly adjective: youthful.

Adjective

youthly (comparative more youthly, superlative most youthly)

  1. (archaic) Youthful.
    • he hath left his plumes all hoary gray, / And deckt himselfe with feathers youthly gay […].1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 1, canto xi
    Synonyms:
    juvenile, youthsome

Synonyms of youthly

Forms of youthly

comparativemore youthly
superlativemost youthly

Origin of youthly

From youth + -ly, possibly continuing Old English ġeoguþlīċ (through Middle English *youthely), but more likely a new formation.

Questions about youthly

What does youthly mean?
Youthly means youthful.
What part of speech is youthly?
Youthly is an adjective.
How do you pronounce youthly?
Youthly is pronounced /ˈjuːθli/.

Words near youthly in the dictionary

  1. youthism
  2. youthitude
  3. youthless
  4. youthlessness
  5. youthlike
  6. youthly
  7. youthman
  8. youthmen
  9. youthness
  10. youthquake
  11. youthquakes

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