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boomingly

boomingly adverb: in a booming manner; loudly.

Adverb

boomingly (comparative more boomingly, superlative most boomingly)

  1. In a booming manner; loudly.
    • 'Mid this spectacle of wide and wanton spoil, insular noises of falling rocks would boomingly explode upon the silence and fright all the echoes, which ran shrieking in and out among the caves, as wailing women and children in some assaulted town.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, Book 25, Chapter 4
    • Then, impelled to some gesture, he raised his voice and in one of his first basso notes called boomingly and without reticence for the waiter.1928 July 28, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Basil: The Freshest Boy”, in The Saturday Evening Post

Forms of boomingly

comparativemore boomingly
superlativemost boomingly

Origin of boomingly

From booming + -ly.

Questions about boomingly

What does boomingly mean?
Boomingly means in a booming manner; loudly.
What part of speech is boomingly?
Boomingly is an adverb.

Words near boomingly in the dictionary

  1. boomies
  2. boomiest
  3. boominess
  4. booming
  5. booming off
  6. boomingly
  7. boomings
  8. boomity
  9. boomkin
  10. boomkins
  11. boomless

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