GRADELY

Etymology

Adjective

gradely (comparative gradelier, superlative gradeliest)

(Northern England) of a person; decent, well-meaning, respectable

• Gracie Fields: "My work has meant travelling the world over, to great places and small, but home to me always means Rochdale and its gradely folk."

excellent

handsome, fair

real, proper

Adverb

gradely (comparative more gradely, superlative most gradely)

properly, really

Source: Wiktionary


Grade"ly, a. Etym: [Cf. AS. grad grade, step, order, fr. L. gradus. See Grade.]

Definition: Decent; orderly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

– adv.

Definition: Decently; in order. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

4 April 2025

GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


coffee icon

Coffee Trivia

Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.

coffee icon