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searingly

searingly adverb: in a burning, blistering, hot manner.

Adverb

searingly (comparative more searingly, superlative most searingly)

  1. In a burning, blistering, hot manner.
  2. (figuratively) Harshly; mercilessly.
    • a searingly honest appraisal of her career prospects
    • Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 23

Forms of searingly

comparativemore searingly
superlativemost searingly

Origin of searingly

From searing + -ly.

Questions about searingly

What does searingly mean?
Searingly means in a burning, blistering, hot manner.
What part of speech is searingly?
Searingly is an adverb.

Words near searingly in the dictionary

  1. Searights
  2. searing
  3. searing hot
  4. searing-iron
  5. searing-irons
  6. searingly
  7. searings
  8. Searjeant
  9. Searjeants
  10. Searl
  11. Searle

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