Word.ws English Dictionary

killingly

killingly adverb: so as to kill; fatally.

Adverb

killingly (comparative more killingly, superlative most killingly)

  1. So as to kill; fatally.
  2. (figuratively) So as to incapacitate with laughter.
    • I should not be able to say how killingly droll I found this.1916, William Dean Howells, Between the Dark and the Daylight, page 152

Proper noun capitalized: Killingly

Killingly

  1. A town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States.

Forms of killingly

comparativemore killingly
superlativemost killingly

Origin of killingly

From killing + -ly.

Words formed from killingly

Questions about killingly

What does killingly mean?
Killingly means so as to kill; fatally.
What part of speech is killingly?
Killingly can be an adverb or a proper noun.

Words near killingly in the dictionary

  1. Killingbeck
  2. Killingbecks
  3. Killinger
  4. Killingers
  5. Killingholme
  6. killingly
  7. killingness
  8. killingry
  9. killings
  10. Killingsworth
  11. Killingsworths

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: killingly (page history and authors); Killingly (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: “killingly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/killingly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.