Word Meanings - SADLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Wearily; heavily; firmly. In go the spears full sadly in arest. Chaucer. 2. Seriously; soberly; gravely. To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. Milton. 3. Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably.

Additional info about word: SADLY

1. Wearily; heavily; firmly. In go the spears full sadly in arest. Chaucer. 2. Seriously; soberly; gravely. To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. Milton. 3. Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably. "He sadly suffers in their grief." Dryden.

Related words: (words related to SADLY)

• SOBERLY
  In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
• WEARILY
  In a weary manner.
• SHEPHERDIA
  A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elæagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• NEGLECT
  1. Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy. To tell thee sadly,
• SHEPHERDLY
  Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. Jer. Taylor.
• SADLY
  1. Wearily; heavily; firmly. In go the spears full sadly in arest. Chaucer. 2. Seriously; soberly; gravely. To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. Milton. 3. Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably.
• SHEPHERDISM
  Pastoral life or occupation.
• NEGLECTION
  The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
• FIRMLY
  In a firm manner.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• MISERABLY
  In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South.
• BLAMEFUL
  1. Faulty; meriting blame. Shak. 2. Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• NEGLECTFUL
  Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
• HEAVILY
  1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded. Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration. The Century. 2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence,
• HEAVILY-TRAVELED; HEAVILY TRAVELED
  subject to much traffic or travel; as, the region's most heavily traveled highways. Syn. -- heavily traveled.
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
• DISBLAME
  To clear from blame. Chaucer.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• BARAESTHESIOMETER; BARESTHESIOMETER
  An instrument for determining the delicacy of the sense of pressure. -- Bar`æs*the`si*o*met"ric, Bar`es*the`si*o*met"ric , a.
• INFIRMLY
  In an infirm manner.