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nightly

/ˈnaɪtli/adjective, adverb2 syllables

Nightly means: happening every night.

Synonyms for nightly3

adjective, as in happening every night

periodic, periodical

adverb, as in at the end of each day

every night

What does nightly mean?2

adjective

1

happening every night“nightly television now goes on until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m.”

adverb

1

at the end of each day“she checks on her roses nightly”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with nightly?6

three syllables

politely
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Nightly in a sentence

  • The policeman was on his usual nightly round.unknown
  • The orchestra plays nightly the whole night through.erikspen
  • Nemesio loved to fall asleep to the nightly lullaby of the crickets' summer chirping.DJ_Saidez
  • The policeman was doing his nightly rounds in the area.Amastan
  • The town's reprobate element gathered nightly in the dim corner of the tavern.rul
  • Stray dogs used to be a common nightly problem in Algiers.Amastan
  • But day does daily draw my sorrows longer, and night does nightly make grief's length seem longer.al_ex_an_der
  • When I was a kid, there'd be nightly arguments about whose turn it was to wash up.patgfisher

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