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shimmeringly

shimmeringly adverb: in a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.

Adverb

shimmeringly (comparative more shimmeringly, superlative most shimmeringly)

  1. In a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.
    • The day was shimmeringly hot.
    • […] I caught the occasional sight of water, shimmeringly reflecting the frosty stars;1857, Georgiana Marion Craik, chapter 2, in Riverston,, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 13

Examples of shimmeringly in a sentence

  • […] the tank was filled, to within a foot of the top, with shimmeringly brilliant white fluid […]1931 April, Jack Williamson, “The Lake of Light”, in Astounding Stories, volume 6, number 1, page 104:
  • [The sun] made the window glass waver, shimmeringly twisted what hung beyond it […]1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Random House, Part 2, p. 122:

Forms of shimmeringly

comparativemore shimmeringly
superlativemost shimmeringly

Origin of shimmeringly

From shimmering + -ly.

Questions about shimmeringly

What does shimmeringly mean?
Shimmeringly means in a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.
How do you use shimmeringly in a sentence?
[…] the tank was filled, to within a foot of the top, with shimmeringly brilliant white fluid […]
What part of speech is shimmeringly?
Shimmeringly is an adverb.

Words near shimmeringly in the dictionary

  1. shimmereth
  2. shimmerier
  3. shimmeriest
  4. shimmeriness
  5. shimmering
  6. shimmeringly
  7. shimmerings
  8. shimmers
  9. shimmery
  10. shimmey
  11. shimmeyed

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