Definitions for adverb

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adverb ad·verb

Spelling: [ad-vurb]

IPA: /ˈæd vɜrb/

Adverb is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in adverb (abderv).

Definitions for adverb

noun

1. any member of a class of words that function as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, as modifiers of adjectives, other adverbs, or adverbial phrases, as very in very nice, much in much more impressive, and tomorrow in She'll write to you tomorrow. They relate to what they modify by indicating place (I promise to be there), time (Do your homework now!), manner (She sings beautifully), circumstance (He accidentally dropped the glass when the bell rang), degree (I'm very happy to see you), or cause (I draw, although badly). See also sentence adverb.

Origin of adverb

1520-30; Latin adverbium, equivalent to ad- ad- + verb(um) word, verb + -ium -ium; calque of Greek epírrhēma

Examples for adverb

There seemed a dim, treacherous comfort in the adverb, and he stayed with her.

The position of the adverb should be as near as possible to the word it qualifies.

I cannot reproduce the number of contemptuous r's that Robin threw into the adverb.

The participle may also have the character of an adjective, the adverb either of an adjective or of a preposition.

The adjective assumes a negative form when it is preceeded by the adverb.

The form of the adverb, as well as of the adjective and the noun, is ill.

King says comics exist largely to eliminate the adverb, and that for Grayson, action is character.

It is not an instance of an adverb governed by a preposition.

I don't like the look of adverb, I think that she's given to lies!

Thus in I will do this, if you do, the if clause is equivalent to the adverb conditionally.