PLAYFULLY

playfully

(adverb) in a playful manner; “she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it out to him playfully”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

playfully (comparative more playfully, superlative most playfully)

In a playful manner.

Source: Wiktionary


PLAYFUL

Play"ful, a.

Definition: Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer.

– Play"ful*ly, adv.

– Play"ful*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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