Meaning

In a trim manner; neatly, smartly..

Definitions by Sense

1. In a trim manner; neatly, smartly.
2. (obsolete) Effectively, handily, nicely, thoroughly, soundly, well.

Example Sentences

[W]hen the fight vvas done, / VVhen I vvas dry with rage and extreme toil, / Breathleſs and faint, leaning upon my ſvvord, / Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dreſs’d, / Freſh as a bridegroom […]

[T]ell me vvhy / VVith vveeping Eyes ſo oft I ſpy / His VVhiſkers curl'd, and Shoo-ſtrings ty'd, / A nevv Toledo by his Side, / In Shoulder-belt so trimly plac'd, / VVith Band so nicely ſmooth'd and lac'd.

[…] in a few score yards I would come upon perfectly undisturbed spaces, houses with their blinds trimly drawn and doors closed, as if they had been left for a day by the owners, or as if their inhabitants slept within.

In one of these trimly built cars was a party of four young men whose spirits seemed to be at present well above the level of successful Gallicism: […]

Cora was standing trimly there with her bewildered stare still on him, and memory restored to Bradly the sweet full lines of her naked body under that skimpy frock.

Borg has graying black hair and is trimly built, fit from a lifetime of hard work maintaining gas pipelines while trapping on the side.

1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 104-106, […] a merry winters tale would drive away the time trimly, come I am sure you are not without a score.

And it is sayde both moste trimly and truly in the Epistle to the Hebreues, as we heard afore: If ye be not vnder correction, (wherof all are partakers) then are ye bastardes and not sonnes.

Word Forms

• more trimly
• most trimly

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Use trimly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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