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fierily

fierily adverb: in a fiery manner.

Adverb

fierily (comparative more fierily, superlative most fierily)

  1. In a fiery manner.
    • The mountain-ash berries across the field stood fierily out from the dark leaves, for a moment.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
    • Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256

Forms of fierily

comparativemore fierily
superlativemost fierily

Origin of fierily

From fiery + -ly.

Questions about fierily

What does fierily mean?
Fierily means in a fiery manner.
What part of speech is fierily?
Fierily is an adverb.

Words near fierily in the dictionary

  1. fiercity
  2. Fieri
  3. fieri facias
  4. fierier
  5. fieriest
  6. fierily
  7. fieriness
  8. Fieris
  9. fierljeppen
  10. Fiero
  11. Fieros

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