Word.ws English Dictionary

grislily

grislily adverb: in a grisly manner.

Adverb

grislily (comparative more grislily, superlative most grislily)

  1. In a grisly manner.
    • On the other hand no number of readings of Œdipus can diminish the horror of the dénouement; and at the fiftieth performance of Die Götterdämmerung our flesh creeps as grislily at the entrance of Siegfried in the guise of Gunther as it did at first.1919, Ernest Newman, A Musical Motley, page 151

Forms of grislily

comparativemore grislily
superlativemost grislily

Origin of grislily

From grisly + -ly.

Questions about grislily

What does grislily mean?
Grislily means in a grisly manner.
What part of speech is grislily?
Grislily is an adverb.

Words near grislily in the dictionary

  1. grisled
  2. grislie
  3. grislier
  4. grislies
  5. grisliest
  6. grislily
  7. grisliness
  8. grislinesses
  9. grisly
  10. grisly bear
  11. grism

Source and license

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