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turbulently

turbulently adverb: in a turbulent manner.

Adverb

turbulently (comparative more turbulently, superlative most turbulently)

  1. In a turbulent manner.
    • And she had turbulently admitted to his wringing questions that her visit to Middleton had been undertaken less because of the invalid relative than in shamefaced fear of her own weakness if she remained near his home.1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 29”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
    • The Hoptons, the greengrocer’s family over the way, were “rough” she thought; they were really turbulently jolly […]1934, H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, Chapter I, section 4

Forms of turbulently

comparativemore turbulently
superlativemost turbulently

Origin of turbulently

From turbulent + -ly.

Questions about turbulently

What does turbulently mean?
Turbulently means in a turbulent manner.
What part of speech is turbulently?
Turbulently is an adverb.

Words near turbulently in the dictionary

  1. turbulencies
  2. turbulency
  3. turbulent
  4. turbulent flow
  5. turbulent flows
  6. turbulently
  7. turbulisation
  8. turbulization
  9. turbulizations
  10. turbulous
  11. Turburea

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