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smoulderingly

smoulderingly is the alternative form of smolderingly.

Meaning of smolderingly

Adverb

smolderingly (comparative more smolderingly, superlative most smolderingly)

  1. With repressed anger or passion.
    • The huge cast and crew included scene makers, hipsters, hangers-on, socialites, amphetamine-thin actress/models, black militants, the publisher Barney Rosset, the boxing champ Jose Torres, the Warhol superstar Ultra Violet, Mailer’s wife at the time — Beverly Bentley — two of his ex-wives, and a...2007 August 26, Gerald Howard, “Mailer Gets Hammered”, in New York Times

Forms of smoulderingly

comparativemore smoulderingly
superlativemost smoulderingly

Origin of smoulderingly

From smouldering + -ly.

Questions about smoulderingly

What is smoulderingly the alternative form of?
Smoulderingly is the alternative form of smolderingly.

Words near smoulderingly in the dictionary

  1. smoulder
  2. smouldered
  3. smoulderer
  4. smoulderers
  5. smouldering
  6. smoulderingly
  7. smoulderingness
  8. smoulderings
  9. smoulders
  10. smouldring
  11. smouldry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoulderingly (page history and authors); smolderingly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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