Elasticly

Part of speech: adverb

Definitions

1. In a manner characterized by flexibility and the ability to stretch and return to original shape; done with resilience and adaptability in response to external forces; performed with supple and springy quality allowing recovery after deformation
2. Describing an action done with stretchable and pliant properties, enabling return to form after bending or extending; executed with robustness to adjust under pressure and revert back; characterized by a limber and expandable nature permitting recovery
3. Acting with the quality of elasticity, exhibiting the capacity to elongate and recoil without damage; conducted with elasticity promoting endurance and adaptability under changes; indicative of a stretchable state facilitating flexibility and restoration of original shape

Etymology: "Elasticly" is simply "elastic" with the adverbial ending "-ly" added, so it is a straightforward formation rather than a word with a dramatic history. "Elastic" itself comes from New Latin "elasticus", a 17th-century scientific coinage from Greek "elaunein", "to drive onward" or "to set in motion," and it entered English in the 1660s, when natural philosophers needed a term for springiness and the way bodies spring back into shape. The adverb "-ly" comes from Old English "-lice," a form of the adjective ending "-lic" (later "-ly"), and it has been attached to adjectives in English for over a thousand years. Because "elastic" already carried the physical sense of stretching and recoiling, "elasticly" describes doing something in that same manner.

Synonyms: flexibly, resiliently, springily

Antonyms: rigidly, inflexibly, stiffly