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tinily

tinily adverb: in a tiny way.

Adverb

tinily (comparative more tinily, superlative most tinily)

  1. In a tiny way.
    • Robert Loo indeed sat as though trying to weave silence round himself, two tufts of cotton wool ineffectual valves, for the noise dwindled from a lion to ants as it met the soft obstacles, but, marching tinily rather than leaping with spread claws, still entered.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 472

Forms of tinily

comparativemore tinily
superlativemost tinily

Origin of tinily

From tiny + -ly.

Questions about tinily

What does tinily mean?
Tinily means in a tiny way.
What part of speech is tinily?
Tinily is an adverb.

Words near tinily in the dictionary

  1. tinier
  2. tinies
  3. tiniest
  4. Tiniguiban
  5. tinikling
  6. tinily
  7. tininess
  8. tininesses
  9. tining
  10. Tinirau
  11. Tiniwisan

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