samely

English

Etymology 1

From same +‎ -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Middle English samli (“together, with each other”, adverb).

Adjective

samely (comparative more samely, superlative most samely)

1. (dialectal) Similar; monotonous; unvaried.
   • 1900, The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 23, page 20:

     It is commonly said that the world today is becoming very samely, and the traveller who visits lands that were yesterday regarded as remote haunts of barbarism usually experiences much disillusion.

   • 1997, John Smith, Tony Bagnall Smith, Vet in Africa: life on the Zambezi, 1913-1933:

     It all helps to vary a diet which, at this time of year, is very samely and low on greens.

Synonyms

• regular, unvarying; see also Thesaurus:steady

Derived terms

• sameliness

Related terms

• same-like

Etymology 2

From same +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

Adverb

samely (comparative more samely, superlative most samely)

1. (nonstandard) In the same manner; identically.
   • 1999 September 16, Tom Christiansen, “CONTEST: Range Searching”, in comp.lang.perl.misc‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I was only showing the -A, -B, and -C flags because I thought they'd trigger associations with the samely-named gnugrep options.

   • 2010 May 17, Da Do Ron Ron, “How can the MMx math be corrected?”, in sci.physics.relativity‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Of course, the ruler and the object will be samely affected, but this means that the shrunken ruler now reads incorrectly.

   • 2016 February 2, <mlwozniak@wp.pl>, “Water bucket”, in sci.physics.relativity‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Still, the equation 0=0 is even simpler, while samely useless.

Anagrams

• Lameys, Leamys, Lemays, Maleys, Mayles, Mealys, amyles, measly, yealms