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boisterously

/ˈbɔɪstəɹəsli/

boisterously adverb: in a boisterous manner, energetically and noisily.

Adverb

boisterously (comparative more boisterously, superlative most boisterously)

  1. In a boisterous manner, energetically and noisily.
    • The best of the joke, too, is, that the very coal-merchant who is loudest in his complaints against the person who defrauded him, is the identical man who sat in the centre of the very front row of the pit last night and laughed the most boisterously at this very same thing,--and not so well done...1837, Charles Dickens, The Pantomime of Life
    • Such indiscriminating stuff is difficult to treat as it deserves, because it is such a mixture of truth and nonsense (Miss Rehan, for instance, is clever in Katharine and boisterously bellowsome in Julia), but it may serve to emphasize the necessity of providing somewhere in newspaper offices for...1894, Werner's Magazine, volumes 15-16, page 319
    Synonyms:
    robustiously

Synonyms of boisterously

Forms of boisterously

comparativemore boisterously
superlativemost boisterously

Origin of boisterously

From boisterous + -ly.

Questions about boisterously

What does boisterously mean?
Boisterously means in a boisterous manner, energetically and noisily.
What part of speech is boisterously?
Boisterously is an adverb.
How do you pronounce boisterously?
Boisterously is pronounced /ˈbɔɪstəɹəsli/.

Words near boisterously in the dictionary

  1. Boissevain-Morton
  2. Boissonneault
  3. Boissonneaults
  4. Boissy-Saint-Léger
  5. boisterous
  6. boisterously
  7. boisterousness
  8. boistous
  9. boistroside
  10. boistrous
  11. Boisvert

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