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rumbly

rumbly adjective: making a rumbling noise.

Adjective

rumbly (comparative rumblier, superlative rumbliest)

  1. Making a rumbling noise.
    • His voice is pleasantly rumbly; his smile is so wide that it seems to have been drawn onto his face with a crayon.2007 June 24, Negar Azimi, “Hard Realities of Soft Power”, in New York Times

Forms of rumbly

comparativerumblier
superlativerumbliest

Origin of rumbly

From rumble + -y.

Questions about rumbly

What does rumbly mean?
Rumbly means making a rumbling noise.
What part of speech is rumbly?
Rumbly is an adjective.

Words near rumbly in the dictionary

  1. rumbling
  2. Rumbling Bridge
  3. rumbling on
  4. rumblingly
  5. rumblings
  6. rumbly
  7. rumbo
  8. rumbooze
  9. Rumbos
  10. rumbowline
  11. rumbowlines

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