Meanings
comparative more queerly · superlative most queerly
- datedIn a queer (strange) manner.
Little Sea grumbled in her sleep, while Desire, with wide-open, faunlike eyes, stared queerly at me.
1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 118Synonyms: eccentrically, unconventionally, oddly
- uncommonIn a queer way (a way not conforming to conventional heterosexual norms), or in a way consistent with queer theory.
Queer Pedagogy Kevin C. Franck Queer pedagogy is less concerned with integrating gay and lesbian content [... and is rather] an attempt to destabilize pedagogical practice and to develop guidelines for teaching and learning queerly.
2005, James Thomas Sears, Youth, Education, and Sexualities: K-Z, →ISBN, page 680
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn a queer (strange) manner.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin a questionably unusual manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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queerly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/queerly
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