discriminatorily
adverb
discriminatorily is an adverb meaning “In a discriminatory manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-I-S-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-O-R-I-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does discriminatorily mean?
adverb
- 1
In a discriminatory manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of discriminatorily
- more discriminatorily comparative
- most discriminatorily superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is discriminatorily?
Discriminatorily appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Discriminatorily in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | discriminatoirement |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does discriminatorily come from?
From discriminatory + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).