musically en · ADV
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English musicallye, musikili; equivalent to musical + -ly.
Meanings
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In a musical manner.
A gentle breeze fills the huge sail of our dhow, and draws us through the water that ripples musically against her sides.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:Prill laughed musically[.]
1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 276:[…] with accents muſically ſweet A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd.
1737, R[ichard] Glover, “Book VI”, in Leonidas. A Poem., page 152:The wind chimes tinkled musically in the breeze.
Something might alſo be ſaid of the choice of Words, in our refined Engliſh Tongue; which are to be liked and approved according to their tone, and the ſweetneſs of their cadence, that is, as they run muſically in the Ear.
1656, T[homas] B[lount], Glossographia: Or a Dictionary, Interpreting all ſuch Hard Words, Whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spaniſh, French, Teutonick, Belgick, Britiſh or Saxon, as are now uſed in our refined Engliſh Tongue. […] , To the Reader:
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In terms of music.
The film looked good, but was musically lacking.
Each sings the tune and words independently of his predecessor and follower, and their blending, though a collision of three sets of words and three sets of notes, is musically coherent.
1893 November 14, Owen Wister, “Catholicity in Musical Taste”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume LXXII, number CCCCXXXIII:He's alſo muſically given, and ſo light of Heel, that there are few People can out-walk him.
1734, The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ by a Turkiſh Spy who Liv'd Five and Forty Years Undiſcover'd at Paris: […] , page 232:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more musically | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most musically | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Translations (10)
mt mużikalment (in a musical manner) · gl musicalmente (in a musical manner) · pl muzycznie (in a musical manner) · fi musiikillisesti (in a musical manner) · es musicalmente (in a musical manner) · ro muzical (in a musical manner) · fr musicalement (in a musical manner) · fi musikaalisesti (in a musical manner) · it musicalmente (in a musical manner) · de musikalisch (in a musical manner)