6 Letters
4 Consonants
2 Vowels
2 Syllables
Types Of Speech
You can use poorly as a adverb in a sentence.
About Poorly
A 2 syllables adverb and 6 letters with the letters l, o, p, r, and y, 4 consonants, 2 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letters or. Poorly starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters p, po, poo, poor, poorl, and the ending characters are y, ly, rly, orly, oorly, . Poorly is also a double vowel (oo) word. View the double vowel words list.
Definition
(`ill'' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill
Scrabble
Is poorly a scrabble word? A 11 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
Pig Latin
Poorly in Pig Latin is said as "oorlypay or oorlypway".
Unigram
p | o | o | r | l | y
Bigram
po | oo | or | rl | ly
Trigram
poo | oor | orl | rly
Quadrigram
poor | oorl | orly
Word Gram

Synonyms (Cognitive Synonyms) For "Poorly"

There are 181 synonyms available. These are cognitive relationship words which is to say they have a similar meaning, mean the same thing, or have close definition and relationship to poorly.

SynonymDefinition
Abjectlyin a hopeless resigned manner
"she shrugged her shoulders abjectly"
Abominablyin a terrible manner
"she sings terribly"
About(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
"lasted approximately an hour"
"in just about a minute"
"he''s about 30 years old"
"I''ve had about all I can stand"
"we meet about once a month"
"some forty people came"
"weighs around a hundre
Abysmallyin a terrible manner
"she sings terribly"
Afieldoff the subject
beyond the point at issue
"such digressions can lead us too far afield"
Ailingsomewhat ill or prone to illness
"my poor ailing grandmother"
"feeling a bit indisposed today"
"you look a little peaked"
"feeling poorly"
"a sickly child"
"is unwell and can''t come to work"
Alasby bad luck
"unfortunately it rained all day"
"alas, I cannot stay"
Amissin an imperfect or faulty way
"The lobe was imperfectly developed"
"Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen
Approximately(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
"lasted approximately an hour"
"in just about a minute"
"he''s about 30 years old"
"I''ve had about all I can stand"
"we meet about once a month"
"some forty people came"
"weighs around a hundre
Around(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
"lasted approximately an hour"
"in just about a minute"
"he''s about 30 years old"
"I''ve had about all I can stand"
"we meet about once a month"
"some forty people came"
"weighs around a hundre

View all cognitive synonyms for Poorly

Antonyms

There are 2 words that have the opposite meaning of poorly.

AntonymDefinition
Goodmoral excellence or admirableness
"there is much good to be found in people"
Wella deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine

Anagrams

There are 1 anagrams from poorly.

Anagram Definition
Poorly(`ill'' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner
not well
"he was ill prepared"
"it ill befits a man to betray old friends"
"the car runs badly"
"he performed badly on the exam"
"the team played poorly"
"ill

View English words with the unique letters used in poorly. Words With The Letters Lopry

Pertainyms

3 pertainyms available for the word poorly

Word Definition
Mediocrepoor to middling in quality;
"there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
Poordeserving or inciting pity;
"a hapless victim";
"miserable victims of war";
"the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy;
"piteous appeals for help";
"pitiable homeless children";
"a pitiful fate";
"Oh, you poor thing";
"his poor d
Second Rate

The word games Words With Friends, 4pics1Word, Word Chums, and Jumble which is by far one of the most successful of the word games. Jumble was created in 1954 - below, you will find the most unscrambled letters for each descramble word game that others have solved or decoded to make the word poorly.

Is poorly a scrabble word or can you use poorly in Words With Friends? The probability of getting this word in scrabble is 1 out of every 443472 games and in Words With Friends it's 1 out of every 564502 games. This 6 letter 11 point scrabble word can be rearranged 360 ways. What other words can be made with the letters l, o, p, r, and y? There's 18 with 8 letters or less with the letters l, o, p, r, and y. Here is a list of 18 to try to get you more points.

WordScrabbleWords With FriendsWord Chums4Pics1WordJumble
Foreplay (8 letters) 16 +5 17 +5 foreplay
Pillory (7 letters) 12 +1 14 +2 pillory
Plyboard (8 letters) 16 +5 18 +6 plyboard
Payroll (7 letters) 12 +1 14 +2 payroll
Playgoer (8 letters) 14 +3 16 +4 playgoer
Pyrola (6 letters) 11 12 pyrola
Polypore (8 letters) 15 +4 17 +5 elooppry
Prophyll (8 letters) 18 +7 20 +8 prophyll
Propyl (6 letters) 13 +2 15 +3 propyl
Redeploy (8 letters) 14 +3 15 +3 redeploy
Roleplay (8 letters) 13 +2 15 +3 roleplay
Pyloric (7 letters) 14 +3 16 +4 pyloric
Poorly (6 letters) 11 12 loopry
Probably (8 letters) 17 +6 20 +8 probably
Properly (8 letters) 15 +4 17 +5 elopprry
Priorly (7 letters) 12 +1 13 +1 iloprry
Polycarp (8 letters) 17 +6 20 +8 acloppry
Pyrolyze (8 letters) 25 +14 25 +13 pyrolyze





     

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