intently

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English intent

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English intently

From intent + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛntli/

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• Hyphenation: in‧tent‧ly

Adverb

intently (comparative more intently, superlative most intently)

1. In an intent or focused manner.
   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 193:

     Her back was toward the jungle, and so she did not see the grasses part, or the savage face that peered from between. Little, bloodshot, close-set eyes scanned her intently, roving from time to time about the open beach for indications of the presence of others than herself.

Synonyms

• narrowly

Translations

in a focused manner

• Dutch: aandachtig (nl)
• Esperanto: intense (eo), atente (eo)
• French: attentivement (fr)
• German: angespannt (de), aufmerksam (de), gespannt (de), konzentriert (de)
• Italian: attentamente (it), meticolosamente (it), minuziosamente (it)
• Portuguese: atentamente (pt)
• Spanish: atentamente (es)
• Turkish: dikkatle (tr)
• Ukrainian: уважно (uk) (uvažno)