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  1. seelyadjective

    Lucky, fortunate.

  2. seelyadjective

    Innocent; harmless.

  3. seelyadjective

    Pitiable, deserving of sympathy; poor, miserable.

  4. seelyadjective

    Trifling, insignificant.

  5. seelyadjective

    Silly, foolish.

  6. Etymology: From sely, from * (attested only in form gesælig), from sēlīgaz, equivalent to. Cognate with West Frisian sillich, Dutch zalig, German selig. Developed into silly.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Seelyadjective

    Etymology: from seel , lucky time, Saxon.

    My seely sheep like well below,
    For they been hale enough and trow,
    And liken their abode. Edmund Spenser.

    Peacock and turkie, that nibbles off top,
    Are very ill neighbours to seely poor hop. Thomas Tusser.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Seelyadjective

    see Silly

Wikidata

  1. Seely

    Seely was a dream pop band from Atlanta, Georgia formed in 1994. They released four albums before disbanding in 2000.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SEELY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Seely is ranked #6150 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Seely surname appeared 5,571 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Seely.

    93.3% or 5,202 total occurrences were White.
    2.4% or 135 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.4% or 81 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1% or 57 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.9% or 52 total occurrences were Black.
    0.7% or 44 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Seely in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Seely in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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