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losingly

losingly adverb: in a manner that loses or will lose.

Adverb

losingly (comparative more losingly, superlative most losingly)

  1. In a manner that loses or will lose.
  2. (obsolete, rare) In a manner that causes loss.
    • Any very systematic arrangement of the Sunday-school, that is, any strict assimilation of it to one or the other of our public systems, would, in particular localities, be its death blow. It would be beyond the grasp of the village conductor, grown old in other modes of teaching, and neither very...1829, Anonymous, "Letter VII, The Instruction of the Poor", in Parochial Letters from a Beneficed Clergyman to His Curate, C. J. G. & F. Rivington, pages 96–97

Forms of losingly

comparativemore losingly
superlativemost losingly

Origin of losingly

From losing + -ly.

Questions about losingly

What does losingly mean?
Losingly means in a manner that loses or will lose.
What part of speech is losingly?
Losingly is an adverb.

Words near losingly in the dictionary

  1. losing touch
  2. losing track
  3. losinge
  4. losinges
  5. losingest
  6. losingly
  7. losings
  8. Losito
  9. Lositos
  10. losmapimod
  11. losmen

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