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inchingly

inchingly adverb: an inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.

Adverb

inchingly (comparative more inchingly, superlative most inchingly)

  1. An inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.
    • When the new driveway was completed and cars and trucks could crawl inchingly over it, I lost my patience with moon-science.1995, Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles, A little better than plumb: the biography of a house, page 141
    • […]a new, more active world, dominated by animals that move around, even if as inchingly as snails, urchins and crabs.2010, Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, page 146

Forms of inchingly

comparativemore inchingly
superlativemost inchingly

Origin of inchingly

From inching + -ly.

Questions about inchingly

What does inchingly mean?
Inchingly means an inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.
What part of speech is inchingly?
Inchingly is an adverb.

Words near inchingly in the dictionary

  1. inching along
  2. inching away
  3. inching back
  4. inching forward
  5. inching up
  6. inchingly
  7. inchings
  8. inchis
  9. Inchlonaig
  10. inchlong
  11. inchman

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