In an alert manner; with watchfulness, attentiveness, or keen awareness of surroundings.
Combines 'alert' (from Old French 'alerter') with '-ed' (past participle) and '-ly' (adverb suffix), forming a multi-morpheme adverb describing manner of action.
This word shows English's incredible flexibility—you can stack suffixes to build precise shades of meaning, like 'alertedly' versus just 'alertly,' even if they mean nearly the same thing!
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