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precipitately en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /pɹɪˈsɪ.pɪ.tət.li/
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Etymology

Etymology tree English precipitate Middle English -ly English -ly English precipitately From precipitate + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a precipitate manner.
   • Nawnim rushed into the bedroom so precipitately that he nearly crashed into the bed. 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 63:
   • She sains herself, and the thief takes to flight so precipitately as to leave behind her a copper pan of a form never seen before. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 263:
   • He talked precipitately, and I did not try to stop him. 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 215:
   • "That's that!" said Mailey, folding up the paper. "Now, Mr. Thomas Didymus, I leave you to your conclusions," and the enthusiast vanished out of the office as precipitately as he had entered. 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
   • Despite their pre-war pioneering work in diesel rail traction, the Germans did not precipitately dieselise their own national system as soon as post-war opportunity offered. 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 387:

Forms

Synonyms

precipitantly

Translations (1)

es precipitadamente (In a precipitate manner)