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plumply

plumply adverb: unreservedly; fully.

Adverb

plumply (comparative more plumply, superlative most plumply)

  1. Unreservedly; fully.
    • Quite plumply, forgot the appointment.
    • He was plumply pleased by salutes on the street from unknown small boys; his ears were tickled to ruddy ecstasy by hearing himself called "Colonel;" and if he did not attend Sunday School merely to be thus exalted, certainly he thought about it all the way there.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XVII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section PART III, page 219
    Synonyms:
    roundly, plainly
  2. With plumpness, in a plump way.
    • She lifted her night-dress over her head and for a moment caught a glimpse of her nakedness in the tarnished looking-glass—plumply rounded thighs and knees, the dimple in her stomach.1986, William Trevor, “Kathleen's Field”, in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, published 1992, page 1254

Synonyms of plumply

Forms of plumply

comparativemore plumply
superlativemost plumply

Origin of plumply

From plump + -ly.

Questions about plumply

What does plumply mean?
Plumply means unreservedly; fully.
What part of speech is plumply?
Plumply is an adverb.

Words near plumply in the dictionary

  1. plumpishness
  2. plumpitude
  3. plumpitudes
  4. plumpkin
  5. plumpkins
  6. plumply
  7. plumpness
  8. plumpnesses
  9. plumps
  10. plumps down
  11. plumps for

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