different between carefully vs alertly

English

Etymology

From Middle English carfulli, carefulliche, from Old English carfull??e, ?earfull??e (“carefully, diligently”), equivalent to careful +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??f?li/, /?k??fli/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??f?li/, /?k??fli/
• Hyphenation: care?ful?ly, caref?ully

Adverb

carefully (comparative more carefully, superlative most carefully)

1. (obsolete) Sorrowfully.
2. With care; attentively, circumspectly.

   • Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

Translations

English

Etymology

alert +? -ly

Adverb

alertly (comparative more alertly, superlative most alertly)

1. In an alert manner; with alertness.
   • 1823, Walter Scott, Saint Ronan's Well, Chapter 9, ^[1]

     Behind one of the old oaks which we have described in the preceding chapter, shrouding himself from observation like a hunter watching for his game, or an Indian for his enemy, but with different, very different purpose, Tyrrel lay on his breast near the Buck-stane, his eye on the horse-road which winded down the valley, and his ear alertly awake to every sound which mingled with the passing breeze, or with the ripple of the brook.

   • 1897, H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, Chapter 23, ^[2]

     I walked fast to avoid being overtaken. Every crossing was a danger, every passenger a thing to watch alertly.

   • 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1, ^[3]

     Miss Baker and I exchanged a short glance consciously devoid of meaning. I was about to speak when she sat up alertly and said “Sh!” in a warning voice.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter ,

     She was wearing tight white shorts and a grey tank top of Jasper’s, in which her small breasts moved alertly.

Translations

Anagrams

• elytral, laterly, retally, telarly