Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
-ly
2
Pronunciation:
/lɪ/
suffix
forming adverbs from adjectives, chiefly denoting manner or degree:
greatly
happily
pointedly
Origin:
Old English
-līce
, of Germanic origin
Search results in the dictionary
-ly
1
More results »
Nearby Words
LW
LWB
lwei
LWM
Lwów
LWV
lx
LXX
-ly
1
-ly
2
Lyallpur
lyase
lycaenid
lycanthrope
lycanthropy
lycée
Lyceum
lychee
lychgate