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loweringly

loweringly adverb: in a lowering manner; menacingly; with cloudiness or gloom.

Adverb

loweringly (comparative more loweringly, superlative most loweringly)

  1. (dated) In a lowering manner; menacingly; with cloudiness or gloom.
    • Ahab stood apart; and every time the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun’s rays[…]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    • He shambled along with bowed head, his brain in a tumult of agony and despair. When he looked loweringly up, quivering at each sound, his eyes had the expression of those of a criminal who thinks his guilt and his punishment great, and knows that he can find no words.1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

Forms of loweringly

comparativemore loweringly
superlativemost loweringly

Origin of loweringly

From lowering + -ly.

Questions about loweringly

What does loweringly mean?
Loweringly means in a lowering manner; menacingly; with cloudiness or gloom.
What part of speech is loweringly?
Loweringly is an adverb.

Words near loweringly in the dictionary

  1. lowering
  2. lowering one's guard
  3. lowering one's sights
  4. lowering the bar
  5. lowering the boom
  6. loweringly
  7. lowerings
  8. lowermost
  9. lowers
  10. lowers one's guard
  11. lowers one's sights

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