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spongily

spongily adverb: in a spongy manner.

Adverb

spongily (comparative more spongily, superlative most spongily)

  1. In a spongy manner.
    • a tract [of land] too spongily saturated to be bent to human use1863, John Hanning Speke, “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, in Living Age, volume 80, page 218

Forms of spongily

comparativemore spongily
superlativemost spongily

Origin of spongily

From spongy + -ly.

Questions about spongily

What does spongily mean?
Spongily means in a spongy manner.
What part of speech is spongily?
Spongily is an adverb.

Words near spongily in the dictionary

  1. spongiform
  2. spongillaflies
  3. spongillafly
  4. spongillid
  5. spongillids
  6. spongily
  7. spongin
  8. sponginess
  9. sponging
  10. sponging down
  11. sponging house

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