transitorily

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
12

Definition of transitorily

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a transitory way.
    “With regard to similes of this kind, it will readily occur to the reader that when a resembling subject is once properly introduced in a simile, the mind is transitorily amused with the new object, and is not dissatisfied with the slight interruption.”
    “All parts of the experienced world are experienced transitorily. They appear and disappear.”
    “Most transitorily poor households are substantially better off than chronically poor households.”
    “It is not a permanent space: it transitorily colonizes public urban space, overlapping and somehow replacing it.”

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Etymology

From transitory + -ly.

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5 words

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5-letter words

13 words

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