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floorwise

floorwise adverb: like a floor.

Adverb

floorwise (not comparable)

  1. (nonce-word, poetic) Like a floor.
    • While our feet struck glories / Outward, smooth and fair, / Which we stood on floorwise, / Platformed in mid air.1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Drama of Exile”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 32

Adjective

floorwise (not comparable)

  1. (India, nonstandard) Based on, or in terms of, the floor.
    • floorwise building plans; floorwise area calculations

Origin of floorwise

From floor + -wise.

Questions about floorwise

What does floorwise mean?
Floorwise means like a floor.
What part of speech is floorwise?
Floorwise can be an adverb or an adjective.

Words near floorwise in the dictionary

  1. floorwalking
  2. floorward
  3. floorwards
  4. floorway
  5. floorways
  6. floorwise
  7. floorwoman
  8. floorwomen
  9. floorwork
  10. floos
  11. floose

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