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improvingly

improvingly adverb: in a manner that tends to improve (especially, (dated), to educate or morally better a person).

Adverb

improvingly (comparative more improvingly, superlative most improvingly)

  1. In a manner that tends to improve (especially, (dated), to educate or morally better a person).
    • […] so fascinating and exciting is this method of idling away time which might be much more profitably and improvingly employed, that many of the fishermen frequent the cliffs, and peril their lives in the forbidden pursuit.1856, Eliza Edmondston, Sketches and Tales of the Shetland Islands, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox, Chapter 12 “The Fowler,” p. 140
    • There are no newspapers and the broadcasting is given over to twaddle—there was a fellow gassing most improvingly about ants and grasshoppers yesterday—mixed up with slabs of biassed news and anti-strike propaganda.1927, H. G. Wells, Meanwhile, New York: George H. Doran, Book II, “View,” § 10, p. 222

Forms of improvingly

comparativemore improvingly
superlativemost improvingly

Origin of improvingly

From improving + -ly.

Questions about improvingly

What does improvingly mean?
Improvingly means in a manner that tends to improve (especially, (dated), to educate or morally better a person).
What part of speech is improvingly?
Improvingly is an adverb.

Words near improvingly in the dictionary

  1. improving lease
  2. improving leases
  3. improving on
  4. improving the occasion
  5. improving upon
  6. improvingly
  7. improvisable
  8. improvisate
  9. improvisated
  10. improvisates
  11. improvisating

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