queerly

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adverb

In a queer (strange) manner.

RareScrabble 19

Meanings

adverbqueerly (comparative more queerly, superlative most queerly)

comparative more queerly · superlative most queerly

  1. 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 118

    Synonyms: eccentrically, unconventionally, oddly

  2. 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 strange manner

adverbin a questionably unusual manner

Similar

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

queerly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/queerly

MLA

“queerly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/queerly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “queerly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/queerly.

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