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drippingly

drippingly adverb: so as to drip.

Adverb

drippingly (comparative more drippingly, superlative most drippingly)

  1. So as to drip.
    • a basket of drippingly ripe peaches
    • Still confounding critics more than 40 years after its making, “Le Bonheur” could qualify as either the most drippingly sentimental film ever made or the most dryly ironic.2008 January 22, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times

Forms of drippingly

comparativemore drippingly
superlativemost drippingly

Origin of drippingly

From dripping + -ly.

Questions about drippingly

What does drippingly mean?
Drippingly means so as to drip.
What part of speech is drippingly?
Drippingly is an adverb.

Words near drippingly in the dictionary

  1. dripping pans
  2. dripping point
  3. dripping points
  4. dripping water hollows a stone
  5. dripping wet
  6. drippingly
  7. drippings
  8. dripple
  9. drippled
  10. dripples
  11. drippling

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