Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

distractedly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English distracted Middle English -ly English -ly English distractedly From distracted + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a distracted manner.
    • Bradly had laid out rice, potatoes, tomatoes and cheese, and was juggling distractedly among these matters. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 202:
    • [S]he flaps distractedly past us in a splather of muddy spume. 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 147:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most distractedly Degree=Sup lexicographic
more distractedly Degree=Cmp lexicographic