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missingly

missingly adverb: with a sense of loss.

Adverb

missingly (comparative more missingly, superlative most missingly)

  1. (obsolete) With a sense of loss.
    • Sir, it is three dayes since I saw the Prince: what
      his happier affayres may be, are to me vnknowne: but I
      haue (missingly) noted, he is of late much retyred from
      Court, and is lesse frequent to his Princely exercises then
      formerly he hath appeared.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of missingly

comparativemore missingly
superlativemost missingly

Origin of missingly

From missing + -ly.

Questions about missingly

What does missingly mean?
Missingly means with a sense of loss.
What part of speech is missingly?
Missingly is an adverb.

Words near missingly in the dictionary

  1. missing times
  2. missing trader fraud
  3. missing trader frauds
  4. missing white girl syndrome
  5. missing white woman syndrome
  6. missingly
  7. missingness
  8. missings
  9. missiological
  10. missiologically
  11. missiologies

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