level – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of level

Adjective: level

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeleveler; leveller
Superlativelevelest; levellest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?
  • the smooth and level pavement [1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper.
  • Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • His pulse has been level for 12 hours.
  • His voice has been unchanged. It has been level for 12 hours.
  • He kept a level head under stress.
  • He kept a level gaze.
  • Young boys and girls
  • Are level now with men. [c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xv]:]
  • After a poor start to the season, Roy Hodgson's men are now unbeaten in four matches and 10th in the Premier League table, level with Aston Villa on 11 points. [2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:]
  • a very plain and level account [1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma:]
  • a level head; a level understanding
  • a level consideration [c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
  • Intonation or tone is either level, rising, or falling, marked respectively [1891, Henry Sweet, A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period:]
  • The earth's oceans remain level in relation to the pull of gravity.

Adjectives inflected like level

level, royal, smol,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder.
4. Proto-Italic *līðrā?
5. Latin lībra
6. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
7. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
8. Proto-Italic *-elos
9. Latin -la
10. Latin libella
11. Old French livelbor.
12. Middle English level
13. English level
14. From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate. Doublet of libella and niveau.
15. The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun.