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roisterously

roisterously adverb: in a roisterous way.

Adverb

roisterously (comparative more roisterously, superlative most roisterously)

  1. In a roisterous way.
    • For at her feet, grubbing in the dirt and not a whit cleaner, crawls a fat, chubby, ink-eyed little urchin, all but nude, and chuckling roisterously with the delight of having just constructed with success a model mud-pie after the universal infantile receipt the wide world over, who glances up at...1872 January, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, page 64
    • Yet he, too, knew all their songs, and sang them along the roads roisterously.1913, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 7, in Sons and Lovers

Forms of roisterously

comparativemore roisterously
superlativemost roisterously

Origin of roisterously

From roisterous + -ly.

Questions about roisterously

What does roisterously mean?
Roisterously means in a roisterous way.
What part of speech is roisterously?
Roisterously is an adverb.

Words near roisterously in the dictionary

  1. roistering
  2. roisteringly
  3. roisterings
  4. roisterly
  5. roisterous
  6. roisterously
  7. roisterousness
  8. roisters
  9. roisting
  10. roists
  11. roitelet

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