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ear-piercingly

ear-piercingly adverb: in an ear-piercing manner; at an ear-piercing volume.

Adverb

ear-piercingly (comparative more ear-piercingly, superlative most ear-piercingly)

  1. In an ear-piercing manner; at an ear-piercing volume.
    • The Noisy Scrub-bird is aptly named because its main call of several sweet notes is ear-piercingly loud.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247

Forms of ear-piercingly

comparativemore ear-piercingly
superlativemost ear-piercingly

Origin of ear-piercingly

From ear-piercing + -ly.

Questions about ear-piercingly

What does ear-piercingly mean?
Ear-piercingly means in an ear-piercing manner; at an ear-piercing volume.
What part of speech is ear-piercingly?
Ear-piercingly is an adverb.

Words near ear-piercingly in the dictionary

  1. ear-drop
  2. ear-finger
  3. ear-fingers
  4. ear-minded
  5. ear-piercing
  6. ear-piercingly
  7. ear-piercings
  8. ear-player
  9. ear-players
  10. ear-range
  11. ear-rape

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