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compactly

adv

Etymology

From compact + -ly.

  1. derived from *peh₂ǵ-✻
  2. derived from compāctus
  3. derived from compact
  4. suffixed as compactly — “compact + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a compact manner

    • Old Kipps glanced at her over his spectacles. "You ain't comfortable, my gal, in this world, not if you don't live up to your position," so putting compactly into contemporary English that fine old phrase, noblesse oblige.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for compactly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA