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形容詞

frightly (comparative more frightly, superlative most frightly)

1. Frightful; dreadful.

• 1880, Allen Putnam, Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism, page 404:

  "His wives" (he had buried two) had privately complained unto the neighbors about frightly apparitions of evil spirits with which their house was sometimes infested; and many such things had been whispered among the neighborhood."

• 2013, Neils Axt, ChronoTales, page 15:

  And they were the first, arriving at frightly matrimonial junction long before their high school classmates had seriously considered such options.

• 2022, Garry Boulard, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant: Their Epic Battle:

  A more frightly scene was scarcely ever witnessed,” Cadwallader observed.

副詞

frightly (comparative more frightly, superlative most frightly)

1. In a frightful or dreadful manner.

• 2025, Brett O'Conor, The Butcher:

  The Kentucky Fright Chicken. They are frightly good!

語源

From fright +‎ -ly.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfrixtliː/

形容詞

frightly

1. (rare) fearful, awed

派生した語

• English: frightly (obsolete)

参照

• “frightlī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 April 2018.