roisterously
roisterously adverb: in a roisterous way.
Adverb
roisterously (comparative more roisterously, superlative most roisterously)
- 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
| comparative | more roisterously |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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
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