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mountainously

mountainously adverb: in a mountainous manner.

Adverb

mountainously (comparative more mountainously, superlative most mountainously)

  1. In a mountainous manner.
    • Besides her fruitfull earth, her mightie breadth and length,
      Doth Chiltern fitly match: which mountainously hie,
      And beeing very long, so likewise shee doth lie;1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 15 p. 3

Forms of mountainously

comparativemore mountainously
superlativemost mountainously

Origin of mountainously

From mountainous + -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.

Questions about mountainously

What does mountainously mean?
Mountainously means in a mountainous manner.
What part of speech is mountainously?
Mountainously is an adverb.

Words near mountainously in the dictionary

  1. mountainmint
  2. mountainmints
  3. mountainness
  4. mountainous
  5. Mountainous Karabakh
  6. mountainously
  7. mountainousness
  8. mountains
  9. mountains in labour
  10. Mountains of the Moon
  11. mountains to climb

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