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Clock —> clockwise
other —> otherwise

Can one freely create new words using the wise suffix? Is it wise to do so?

One's stuck with one's assignment as one has to write an essay about roads in the Roman Empire and instead of writing 'in terms of roads', can one just use 'roadwise'?

In terms of cars would be carwise. In terms of denim would be denimwise, right?

That's rightwise.

Thanks Raleigh, you're the only one who replied. I was not kidding, it really can't get out of my head.

I heard the term Roadwise before. It's used to describe someone who's very good at driving. Like~ He's very Roadwise since he's been driving a long time & never had an accident.

infrastructurewise

What are you, SmudgedHorizon?

One of those wise dames?

And of course there's "streetwise" which is not at all the same as roadwise.

Critterwise, I sure do love my kitties, but naturewise, I love pretty much all creatures, plus plants and rocks and stuff. I think I'll leave them where they are, though, the house would get awfully crowded, livingwise .

Hugwise, here's one for you, Smudgedhorizon.

The concocted word "moneywise" means two different things in these two questions.

How are you doing "moneywise"?

and

"Are you moneywise"?

In the first it means "using finance as a yardstick, how are you doing?"

The second means "are you savy about money, (or about investing, or like that)?"

Wise (when it stands alone) usually means "having wisdom". But for some reason "wise" can have a totally different meaning when stuck on the end of a word. It modifies the word to make it mean "the thing denoted by this word as the factor being talked about". As in "if we take route 270 it will be shorter time-wise, but if we take 355 it will be shorter distance-wise". Notice that "wisdom" doesn't enter in to it! How "wise" got to mean that I have no idea. But its basically "kidspeak".

But to confuse things lately folks ALSO tack on "wise" to mean "have wisdom about the thing denoted in the word". "Are you heartwise? If so then you will love our breakfast cereal because it doesn't have cholesteral".