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forwardly

adverb

forwardly is an adverb meaning “In a forward manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-W-A-R-D-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does forwardly mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a forward manner

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of forwardly

  • more forwardly comparative
  • most forwardly superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is forwardly?

Forwardly appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).

Where does forwardly come from?

From forward + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).