Word.ws English Dictionary

taperingly

taperingly adverb: in a tapering manner; growing thinner towards one end.

Adverb

taperingly (comparative more taperingly, superlative most taperingly)

  1. In a tapering manner; growing thinner towards one end.

Forms of taperingly

comparativemore taperingly
superlativemost taperingly

Origin of taperingly

From tapering + -ly.

Questions about taperingly

What does taperingly mean?
Taperingly means in a tapering manner; growing thinner towards one end.
What part of speech is taperingly?
Taperingly is an adverb.

Words near taperingly in the dictionary

  1. tapered off
  2. taperer
  3. taperers
  4. tapering
  5. tapering off
  6. taperingly
  7. taperings
  8. taperless
  9. taperlike
  10. taperly
  11. tapermaker

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: taperingly (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “taperingly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/taperingly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.