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drowsily

/ˈdɹaʊzɪli/

drowsily adverb: in a drowsy manner.

Adverb

drowsily (comparative more drowsily, superlative most drowsily)

  1. In a drowsy manner.
    • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II...

Forms of drowsily

comparativemore drowsily
superlativemost drowsily

Origin of drowsily

From drowsy + -ly.

Words that rhyme with drowsily

Questions about drowsily

What does drowsily mean?
Drowsily means in a drowsy manner.
What part of speech is drowsily?
Drowsily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce drowsily?
Drowsily is pronounced /ˈdɹaʊzɪli/.

Words near drowsily in the dictionary

  1. drowseth
  2. drowsier
  3. drowsiest
  4. drowsihead
  5. drowsihed
  6. drowsily
  7. drowsiness
  8. drowsinesses
  9. drowsing
  10. drowsings
  11. drowsy

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