nightly

[ nahyt-lee ]

adjective

1. coming or occurring each night:

   his nightly walk to the newsstand.

2. coming, occurring, appearing, or active at night:

   nightly revels.

3. of, relating to, or characteristic of night:

   the nightly gloom before a storm.

adverb

1. on every night:

   performances given nightly.

2. at or by night:

   an animal that is seen nightly.

nightly

/ ˈnaɪtlɪ /

adjective

1. happening or relating to each night
2. happening at night

adverb

1. at night or each night

Word History and Origins

Origin of nightly¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English nihtlīc. See night, -ly

Example Sentences

You know, we used to have these nightly calls and we had to lend airlines money to keep them going.

From Freakonomics

Play with your schedule to see how many hours of nightly sleep you need.

From Washington Post

When the pandemic hit, nightly walks with my wife became part of my pandemic routine – a chance to escape the chaos of the world and take solace in the natural beauty of Utah’s mountainscape.

From Quartz

In late March, Hidalgo and Cameron counties, the region’s two population centers, implemented nightly curfews.

From ProPublica

In Thailand, too, business were forced to close as the Thai government enacted a strict lockdown, setting a nightly curfew for residents, banning the sale of alcohol, and limiting public gatherings.

From Fortune

Their nightly flights bring with them the powers to pollinate plants and control insect populations.

From The Daily Beast

But beyond the execution of her show on a nightly basis, Chelsea Handler as a late-night host at all was revolutionary.

From The Daily Beast

After a month of almost nightly shelling, about 600,000 people are believed to remain in Donetsk.

From The Daily Beast

See Katie Couric as the first female nightly news anchor as proof.

From The Daily Beast

The explanation is simple, and is as accessible as the nightly news.

From The Daily Beast

I doubt if I should have been making a journey nightly up the hill if I had not expected to find Weston there.

From Project Gutenberg

Upon a little spirit-stove stood a covered vessel containing milk, which was placed there nightly by Rita's maid.

From Project Gutenberg

Have the weeds grown faster or the vegetables less, because of his nightly visitations to it?

From Project Gutenberg

The person whose mind is satisfied by the parlour dullness of that nightly foolery only becomes animated when he is indecent.

From Project Gutenberg

The first thing that struck Sara Lee was the way she was saying her nightly prayers in all sorts of odd places.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• evening
• night
• nighttime
• nocturnal