Definition of lately

"lately" in the adverb sense

1. recently, late, lately, of late, latterly

in the recent past

"he was in Paris recently"

"lately the rules have been enforced"

"as late as yesterday she was fine"

"feeling better of late"

"the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also"

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Quotations for lately

He that tells his wife is but lately married. [ Proverb ]

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves. [ Shenstone ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

lately in Scrabble®

The word lately is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters lately:

LATELY
(39)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word lately

LATELY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In lately

LATELY
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TELLY
(36)
ALLEY
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TALLY
(36)
LATELY
(34)
YELL
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lately in Words With Friends™

The word lately is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters lately:

LATELY
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word lately

LATELY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In lately

LATELY
(54)
LATELY
(48)
LATELY
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ALLEY
(45)
TELLY
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TALLY
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YELL
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Words within the letters of lately

2 letter words in lately (7 words)

3 letter words in lately (14 words)

4 letter words in lately (7 words)

5 letter words in lately (3 words)

6 letter words in lately (1 word)

lately + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving lately

Shorter words in lately

el

at ate late

la late

Longer words containing lately

articulately inarticulately

articulately nonarticulately

articulately unarticulately

auriculately

cumulately

denticulately

desolately

fasciculately

immaculately

inviolately

lanceolately

paniculately

philately

reticulately

spatulately

subulately

tuberculately

undulately

verticillately