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ruminatingly

ruminatingly adverb: while ruminating; with thought or meditation.

Adverb

ruminatingly (comparative more ruminatingly, superlative most ruminatingly)

  1. While ruminating; with thought or meditation.
    • "And it always seems to me," he went on ruminatingly, "that, after all we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go. I know it's shocking blasphemy to say so, but then it's different here, you see. We are further away."1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt

Forms of ruminatingly

comparativemore ruminatingly
superlativemost ruminatingly

Origin of ruminatingly

From ruminating + -ly.

Questions about ruminatingly

What does ruminatingly mean?
Ruminatingly means while ruminating; with thought or meditation.
What part of speech is ruminatingly?
Ruminatingly is an adverb.

Words near ruminatingly in the dictionary

  1. ruminately
  2. ruminates
  3. ruminatest
  4. ruminateth
  5. ruminating
  6. ruminatingly
  7. ruminatings
  8. rumination
  9. rumination syndrome
  10. ruminations
  11. ruminative

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