Word.ws English Dictionary

drivingly

drivingly adverb: so as to drive or motivate.

Adverb

drivingly (comparative more drivingly, superlative most drivingly)

  1. So as to drive or motivate.
    • Keep her eyes, for the time, from her husband’s as she might, she soon found herself much more drivingly conscious of the strain on his own wit.1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, Part 4, Chapter 34
  2. With forceful, inexorable motion.
    • One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]1870, The Shamrock, volume 8, page 18
  3. So as to drive.

Forms of drivingly

comparativemore drivingly
superlativemost drivingly

Origin of drivingly

From driving + -ly.

Questions about drivingly

What does drivingly mean?
Drivingly means so as to drive or motivate.
What part of speech is drivingly?
Drivingly is an adverb.

Words near drivingly in the dictionary

  1. driving while Mexican
  2. driving wind
  3. driving winds
  4. driving-wheel
  5. driving-wheels
  6. drivingly
  7. drivings
  8. driz
  9. drizzlable
  10. drizzle
  11. drizzle-drozzle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: drivingly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “drivingly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/drivingly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.