systematically
If you do something systematically, you do it in an orderly, methodical way. Someone who systematically records her dreams is careful to write them in a notebook every single morning.
Use the adverb systematically when you describe something that's carried out in a deliberate way, especially following a plan. You might systematically memorize every word in the dictionary, starting with A and working your way through the alphabet, or watch a toddler systematically pick up one Cheerio at a time from his bowl and throw it on the floor. Systematically and systematic come from a Greek root, systematikos, or "combined in a whole."
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in a systematic or consistent manner“they systematically excluded women”synonyms: consistentlyantonyms:unsystematicallyin an unsystematic manner
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This novel tells the story of Thomas Gradgrind and his two children as they face social change in 19th-century England. Read the full text here.
This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that turns adjectives into adverbs.
Twelve-year-old Mavis Callahan, her father, and her siblings must adjust to life in the small town of Somewhere, Illinois, after her mother goes on the run following an embezzlement charge.