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doomfully

doomfully adverb: in a doomful manner.

Adverb

doomfully (comparative more doomfully, superlative most doomfully)

  1. In a doomful manner.
    • And high above me now the bridge seemed to move of to where I could not see, striding like a robot, an iron man, whose iron legs clanged doomfully as it moved.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (2010 Random House edition), p. 570 (Google preview)
    • But the old fisherman who followed her up the stairs again shook his head doomfully. "There's no use trying to hold them off," he said. "They'll just ram in the door. Then they'll slaughter the lot of us. I know them."1955, Edgar Maass, The Magnificent Enemies, page 273

Forms of doomfully

comparativemore doomfully
superlativemost doomfully

Origin of doomfully

From doomful + -ly.

Questions about doomfully

What does doomfully mean?
Doomfully means in a doomful manner.
What part of speech is doomfully?
Doomfully is an adverb.

Words near doomfully in the dictionary

  1. doomers
  2. doomes
  3. doomest
  4. doometh
  5. doomful
  6. doomfully
  7. Doomguy
  8. doomier
  9. doomier and gloomier
  10. doomiest
  11. doomiest and gloomiest

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