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atmospherically

atmospherically adverb: in an atmospheric manner.

Adverb

atmospherically (comparative more atmospherically, superlative most atmospherically)

  1. In an atmospheric manner.
    • […] a picture like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a horror film, for it deliberately, atmospherically and painfully puts horrors on show, even if they are credible horrors performed by humans.2012, Bruce F. Kawin, Horror and the Horror Film, page 152
  2. With regard to the atmosphere.
    • In the years following World War Two, Americans cut down vast forests, built thousands of factories, assembled millions of atmospherically toxic automobiles, and filthied the water throughout North America.2007, Tom Bissell, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia

Forms of atmospherically

comparativemore atmospherically
superlativemost atmospherically

Origin of atmospherically

From atmospheric + -ally.

Questions about atmospherically

What does atmospherically mean?
Atmospherically means in an atmospheric manner.
What part of speech is atmospherically?
Atmospherically is an adverb.

Words near atmospherically in the dictionary

  1. atmospheric tide
  2. atmospheric tides
  3. atmospheric water
  4. atmospheric waters
  5. atmospherical
  6. atmospherically
  7. atmosphericity
  8. atmosphericness
  9. atmospherics
  10. atmospherization
  11. atmospherology

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