What are some adverbs that start with the letter n?

Nicely

Nimbly

Naturally?

Nakedly.

Normally, Nominally, Nocturnally, Naively, Narrowly. I can’t of any more.

Naively

Neatly

Normally.

Nocturnally

Numbly

Nastily

Nascently

Just about any adjective that starts with n can become an adverb with -ly. Those suggested above are a good start, although I am not sure what it would mean to do something “in a naked way.”

“Never” is also an adverb. So is “not.”

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@jeruba I was trying to come up with a sentence for that one and couldn’t stop snickering. Everything just comes out sounding NC17.

naughtily
negatively
nervously

nevertheless
notwithstanding
nonchalantly
nationalistically

Those are the longest ones I can think of. :)

@Buttonstc I find it interesting that “nicely” is the first one posted here. That was the first one I thought of when I saw this question. I wonder how often that was the first one thought of…

@Jeruba

How about in a metaphorical sense, eg:

He flaunted his ambition nakedly, not caring who would judge him for it.

Or something along those lines. Totally PG

Neatly Nondisrespectfully (or any adver beginning with ‘non’) Narrowly

@Buttonstc, I can see flaunting naked ambition, but I can’t see flaunting it in a naked way. What is a naked way? If it’s naked, it’s naked. That’s a state, not a way of doing things.

@Dominic

Interesting observation. My offhand guess would be that, in addition to naturally, common usage would be the most probable reason.

A lot of the other words, while not necessarily that esoteric, have more specific meanings or just aren’t used as often.

But that’s just a guess.

@DominicX, “nicely” was my first thought, too. Maybe it’s the voice of Mother: “Play nicely. Ask nicely. Behave nicely. Be nice.”

@Jeruba

I will grant that naked ambition is far more common. However, since it’s not necessarily a desirable thing, someone with little concern for others would display his ambition nakedly ( as opposed to covertly)

Nakedly would be the direct, over-the-top, opposite of covertly.

BTW

Did the OP just maneuver us all into doing his/her homework?

I have a hunch that’s the case and all of us wordsmiths were so intrigued we just unthinkingLY hopped on the bandwagon.

:D

nauseously

Yes !

Nauseously, we just realized we had been used :) :) :)

Oh, I knew it was probably homework. But see, I like answering homework questions. Partly to spite the people who hate them so much but also because I just did the whole school thing and I like showing off my knowledge. :)

There you have it. Raw, uncensored, honest me. :)

One could even say you are nakedly, unashamedly, unreluctant to be used :D

If one flaunts his ambition nakedly, he does it unclothed.

nearly
neatly
nervously
never
noisily
not
now
nowhere
next
or see this list

Neurotically . . . . (did anyone else say this, hmmm, let me look, nope, no I don’t see it anywhere, but I might have made a mistake and missed it somewhere along the line, let me read each response so far-oh the dog needs to go out-hmmm what did I miss, will they hate my answer, what will I do if they hate my answer?).

Niggardly.

nerdly

Nerd is a noun and not a verb. Therefore, no adverbial use.

Can I get some adverbial soap to wash this noun taste out of my mouth?

@Buttonstc @75movies Nerdly has become a verb, just like ‘Google it’ has.

Maybe I’m a little dense with a frozen brain, but how does does one go about “nerding” something?

Googling something I understand, but how do you “nerd” it?

I have yet to hear a sentence where nerd is used as a verb.

The clothes he wore were very nerdly.

I think that would be “nerdy” as an adjective. “He wore nerdy clothes”. I have seen “nerdily” as an adverb. “We couldn’t understand what he was talking about because he spoke so nerdily”.

There, you see. :)

What about “don’t put the sticker on your laptop, you’ll just nerd it up. – Oh no, now it’s too nerdly.”

@Dominic

Ok THAT I can understand. But nerdily is quite different from nerdly.

The second one isn’t a word to begin with, so no wonder I had never heard it used.

And I think nerdily is well on it’s way to becoming standard (but I doubt it’s there yet)

However, language is fluid and ever changing, so I love keeping tabs on new usages.

BTW. there’s another adverb which is not included in standard dictionary usage, but is also well on it’s way to being more commonly used.

Neanderthalishly has been used in common parlance on numerous blog postings and even by Seinfeld’s writers. I couldn’t find it in any dictionary yet but I like it. It’s certainly descriptive for a wide variety of behaviors.

One quote I came across was on a blog discussing whether ABC was increasingly skewing more towards the right wing. The reply was that they have a long way to go before they would ever be considered that neanderthalishly conservative.

Ha, I loved it. It can be SO picturesquely descriptive.

I eagerly await the yearly announcement (by Websters’ I believe) of which new words have gained enough traction to be added to the lexicon.

@Buttonstc If I google a ‘word’ and it comes up with hundreds of listings, does that not mean it is a word? Using that as a guide, nerdly is definitely a word.

Well, put it this way. I definitely wouldn’t use it in Scrabble or other word games which rely upon accepted lexicon appearance.

The fact that It can be found in Urban Dictionary is not what I would consider to exactly be a ringing endorsement since UD defines itself as a compilation of contemporary slang words and phrases.

Nerdy is a word and a fine one at that. Just because a bunch of folks prefer to use nerdly as a synonym for it, doesn’t yet make the cut as an authoritative substitute. Perhaps one day it will if it gains enough traction, bit I don’t think that day is here yet.

At this point it is somewhat in common usage, but I don’t think that widely.

But, regardless of that, upon looking through about 5–6 pages of usage, it is clear that it’s being used as an adjective in place of nerdy or nerdish so it isn’t really applicable to the original question.

But if anyone else wants to consider it a word, I’ll be waiting for them to come up with a Dictionary citation.

But, to each his own and that’s just my opinion. I also wouldn’t be expecting any teachers to find it acceptable in fulfilling an assignment. I would fully expect to be marked down for it.

@Buttonstc Isn’t a living language fun?

Yeah, I love this stuff. I am such a wordaholic.

I have every free app for word games that they’ve put out. But in a lot of them, their lexicogical base is so poor that perfectly mundane words in long time usage are struck down as unacceptable. Nothing makes me see red more quickly, but you can’t argue with a database. I have fired off many an angry email to the developers of such a needlessly sloppy version.

I mean, it’s not as if there aren’t perfectly good resources for correcting this.

The word I’ve had struck down most often seems to be tines. Haven’t any of these dimwits ever heard of forks?

Anyhoo…..

I eagerly await the adoption of nerdly :)