Word.ws English Dictionary

raspingly

raspingly adverb: in a rasping way.

Adverb

raspingly (comparative more raspingly, superlative most raspingly)

  1. In a rasping way.
    • Ali is irreverent, lazy and raspingly sardonic, and his obvious fictional predecessor is Joseph Heller ’s Yossarian.2008 June 15, Robert Macfarlane, “The Late Dictator”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    raspily

Synonyms of raspingly

Forms of raspingly

comparativemore raspingly
superlativemost raspingly

Origin of raspingly

From rasping + -ly.

Questions about raspingly

What does raspingly mean?
Raspingly means in a rasping way.
What part of speech is raspingly?
Raspingly is an adverb.

Words near raspingly in the dictionary

  1. raspily
  2. raspiness
  3. rasping
  4. rasping machine
  5. rasping machines
  6. raspingly
  7. raspingness
  8. raspings
  9. raspis
  10. raspises
  11. raspish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: raspingly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “raspingly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/raspingly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.