sharply
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sharply, scharply, from Old English sċearplīċe (“sharply, smartly”), equivalent to sharp + -ly.
Base: sharp
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: sharplier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more sharply
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: sharpliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most sharply
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: The stick was sharply tapered at one end.
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: When I touched the snake it recoiled sharply.
The economy has slowed to a pale shadow of its growth in recent years; inflation is high, the currency is declining sharply against the dollar — but the expectations of Brazilians have rarely been higher, feeding broad intolerance with corruption, bad schools and other government failings.
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: a sharply focused essay
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: Jones, the centre forward, started the game sharply.
Walters tried a long range shot in the third minute as he opened the game sharply, linking well with Robbie Keane, but goalkeeper Sergei Pareiko gathered the ball with ease.
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: When I asked her about her husband, she replied sharply that she had not seen him for several months.
Before long Tinette stuck her head round the door, and said sharply, 'You're to go to the study.'
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: He was sharply dressed in an expensive suit.
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: Turn sharply to the right.
The last 61 miles of the journey, from Kongsberg to Oslo, are through much less mountainous country. The railway curves sharply away from the Lågan^([sic]), and descends steadily, and in places steeply, past the head of Lake Fiskerumvatn to Hokksund, where the connecting line to the Bergen-Oslo Railway at Hønefoss diverges.
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: The road descends sharply.
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: His old war wound twinged sharply.
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.
gloss: In a sharp manner, in various senses.
pos: adv
examples: The wealth of this small country contrasts sharply with that of its neighbours.
Hynes is careful to direct the credit to his paymasters in the Scottish Government, whose ambitions for rail contrast increasingly sharply with those in Westminster.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: остро
roman: ostro
lang: Bulgarian
word: рязко
roman: rjazko
lang: Czech
word: ostře
lang: Esperanto
word: akre
lang: Finnish
word: terävästi
lang: Finnish
word: kirpeästi
lang: Finnish
word: pistävästi
lang: Hungarian
word: élesen
lang: Latin
word: ācriter
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skarpt
lang: Russian
word: ре́зко
roman: rézko