Is ‘minisculely’ a word?

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This may seem like a silly question, but I was writing an essay and, in the rush of my thoughts, I wrote “with the minisculely efforted action of squeezing.” Now, both ‘minisculely’ and ‘efforted’ are underlined in red. Are these real words? Does this sentence even make sense? It sounds okay in the context of the full sentence, but now I’m unsure. I essentially mean to say “with the smallest effort used in performing the act of squeezing,” but that doesn’t fit well in the sentence I’m using. So, could you help me clarify this? Thank you.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

You might want to invest in a dictionary and a thesarus, but at the very least you could look definitions up online.

Neither of your words are proper.

You could say “the miniscule effort of squeezing”, but you’d have to decide whether that made sense in your context.

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Anonymous · Answer

First of all, it’s spelled wrong. It’s minUsculely, not miniIsculely.
And yeah, why wouldn’t it be a word? Minuscule is an adjective; the usual way to form adverbs is to put -ly on the end of an adjective; there’s no other adverb made out of “minuscule” in any other way. So even if nobody’s ever used it before, which I doubt, it’s a perfectly possible word and totally legit the minute you use it.

Gabriella Stiedemann · Answer

Minisculey is a rare but acceptable adverb I would think. 
Efforted is not a word most likely because effort is a noun not a verb… Tenses are for verbs. But sometimes an “ed” ending does get put on an adjective.  (I.e. A heated debate)
But I can think of an 
I eat
He ate

Anonymous · Answer

Miniscule is the correct form .  Effort is a noun which you have tried to convert to a verbal. 
Try writing “the miniscule effort of action”…. and see what happens.

Dr. Newell Klein IV · Answer

Obsolete and no longer used.
http://www.english-for-students.com/List-of-Adverb…

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