Word.ws English Dictionary

floatingly

floatingly adverb: in a floating manner; so as to float or to appear to float.

Adverb

floatingly (comparative more floatingly, superlative most floatingly)

  1. In a floating manner; so as to float or to appear to float.
    • I closed my eyes, stood there, and had a remarkably relaxed and floatingly nice time, during which I dreamed.2009, Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Influx Press, page 179

Forms of floatingly

comparativemore floatingly
superlativemost floatingly

Origin of floatingly

From floating + -ly.

Questions about floatingly

What does floatingly mean?
Floatingly means in a floating manner; so as to float or to appear to float.
What part of speech is floatingly?
Floatingly is an adverb.

Words near floatingly in the dictionary

  1. floating-point operations
  2. floating-point unit
  3. floating-point units
  4. floatingheart
  5. floatinghearts
  6. floatingly
  7. floatings
  8. floatless
  9. floatline
  10. floatlines
  11. floatmaker

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: floatingly (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: “floatingly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/floatingly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.