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bounteously

bounteously adverb: in a bounteous manner.

Adverb

bounteously (comparative more bounteously, superlative most bounteously)

  1. In a bounteous manner.
    • It is all a question of mode. Most of us are so bounteously endowed with intellect as to require also a spice of genius to choose the right form of behaviour.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter V, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/V)

Forms of bounteously

comparativemore bounteously
superlativemost bounteously

Origin of bounteously

From Middle English bounteously, equivalent to bounteous + -ly.

Questions about bounteously

What does bounteously mean?
Bounteously means in a bounteous manner.
What part of speech is bounteously?
Bounteously is an adverb.

Words near bounteously in the dictionary

  1. bounge
  2. bounges
  3. bouning
  4. bouns
  5. bounteous
  6. bounteously
  7. bounteousness
  8. bounteousnesses
  9. bounteth
  10. bounteths
  11. bountied

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