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glimmeringly

glimmeringly adverb: in a glimmering manner.

Adverb

glimmeringly (comparative more glimmeringly, superlative most glimmeringly)

  1. In a glimmering manner.
    • Lamplight was reflected glimmeringly from the wet street.
  2. By way of vague, imprecise notions or suspicions.
    • The truth came to her glimmeringly.

Forms of glimmeringly

comparativemore glimmeringly
superlativemost glimmeringly

Origin of glimmeringly

From glimmering + -ly.

Questions about glimmeringly

What does glimmeringly mean?
Glimmeringly means in a glimmering manner.
What part of speech is glimmeringly?
Glimmeringly is an adverb.

Words near glimmeringly in the dictionary

  1. glimmerer
  2. glimmerers
  3. glimmerier
  4. glimmeriest
  5. glimmering
  6. glimmeringly
  7. glimmerings
  8. glimmerite
  9. glimmerites
  10. glimmeritic
  11. glimmerous

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