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jitteringly

jitteringly adverb: so as to jitter.

Adverb

jitteringly (comparative more jitteringly, superlative most jitteringly)

  1. So as to jitter.
    • In later centuries, the masses of European immigrants making footfall in New York’s streets saw the turbid, jostling, unprecedented mix of peoples, all striving to get ahead, and called the jitteringly new phenomenon “American.”2009 May 31, “Reaching Here”, in New York Times

Forms of jitteringly

comparativemore jitteringly
superlativemost jitteringly

Origin of jitteringly

From jittering + -ly.

Questions about jitteringly

What does jitteringly mean?
Jitteringly means so as to jitter.
What part of speech is jitteringly?
Jitteringly is an adverb.

Words near jitteringly in the dictionary

  1. jitterier
  2. jitteriest
  3. jitterily
  4. jitteriness
  5. jittering
  6. jitteringly
  7. jitterings
  8. jitterless
  9. jitterplot
  10. jitterplots
  11. jitters

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