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featly

[ feet-lee ]

adverb

  1. suitably; appropriately.
  2. skillfully; nimbly.
  3. neatly; elegantly.


adjective

  1. graceful; elegant.

featly

/ ˈfiːtlɪ /

adverb

  1. neatly
  2. fitly


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Derived Forms

  • ˈfeatliness, noun

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Other Words From

  • feat·li·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of featly1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English fetly; feat 2, -ly ( def 3 )

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Example Sentences

These maidens begin to dance on the green grass, and so featly do they step that they scarce seem to touch the ground.

Aucassin was the name of the damoiseau: fair was he, goodly, and great, and featly fashioned of his body and limbs.

Think you that our muckle clumsy bodies could run and hide as featly?

Then foot it featly; that you may say hereafter you remember when your mother was first married, and danced at her wedding.

The lane was a place of enchantment—a long, moonlit colonnade adown which beguiling wood nymphs might have footed it featly.

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