orally

English

Etymology

From oral +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɹəli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adverb

orally (not comparable)

1. By mouth.

   This medicine is taken orally. Swallowing a pill sure beats getting a shot every day.

   Pleasure your partner orally and manually.

   • 1971 March 19, Richard Severo, “Addiction: Chemistry Is the New Hope, but Degree of Its Effectiveness Is Still Disputed”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     But methadone is a dangerous drug. If taken orally by a nonaddict, it can cause euphoria or even death.

2. Spoken as opposed to written.

   I took the make-up test orally because my arm is still in a cast.

Derived terms

• orally disintegrating tablet

 

Translations

by mouth

• Bulgarian: през устата (prez ustata)
• Esperanto: buŝe
• Finnish: suun kautta
• French: oralement (fr)
• Galician: oralmente (gl)
• German: oral (de)
• Icelandic: munnlega
• Portuguese: oralmente (pt), bucalmente
• Russian: ора́льно (ru) (orálʹno)
• Spanish: oralmente (es)
• Swedish: oralt (sv)

spoken

• Arabic: شِفَاهِيًا (šifāhiyan), شِفَاهًا (šifāhan)
• Bulgarian: устно (bg) (ustno)
• Catalan: oralment (ca)
• Finnish: suullisesti (fi)
• French: oralement (fr)
• Galician: oralmente (gl), verbalmente
• German: mündlich (de)
• Icelandic: munnlega
• Portuguese: oralmente (pt), verbalmente (pt)
• Russian: у́стно (ru) (ústno)
• Spanish: oralmente (es), de viva voz
• Swedish: verbalt (sv), muntligt (sv)
• Ukrainian: у́сно (úsno)

Anagrams

• Royall, oryall, royall