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fallingly

fallingly adverb: while falling; with a falling motion.

Adverb

fallingly (comparative more fallingly, superlative most fallingly)

  1. While falling; with a falling motion.
    • Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House
    • […] he lurched forward fallingly to receive him.1927, Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional, page 111

Forms of fallingly

comparativemore fallingly
superlativemost fallingly

Origin of fallingly

From falling + -ly.

Questions about fallingly

What does fallingly mean?
Fallingly means while falling; with a falling motion.
What part of speech is fallingly?
Fallingly is an adverb.

Words near fallingly in the dictionary

  1. Falling Waters
  2. falling weather
  3. falling-off
  4. falling-out
  5. falling-sickness
  6. fallingly
  7. fallings
  8. fallings out
  9. fallings-out
  10. Fallingwater
  11. Fallis

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