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viscidly

viscidly adverb: in a viscid fashion or manner.

Adverb

viscidly (comparative more viscidly, superlative most viscidly)

  1. In a viscid fashion or manner.
    • The room was stuffy, the smoke hanging as viscidly in the warm still air as the white of an egg hangs in water, as if she’d been sitting there for some time.2009, Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, Virago Press (2018), page 444

Forms of viscidly

comparativemore viscidly
superlativemost viscidly

Origin of viscidly

From viscid + -ly.

Questions about viscidly

What does viscidly mean?
Viscidly means in a viscid fashion or manner.
What part of speech is viscidly?
Viscidly is an adverb.

Words near viscidly in the dictionary

  1. viscidium
  2. viscidize
  3. viscidized
  4. viscidizes
  5. viscidizing
  6. viscidly
  7. viscidness
  8. viscidone
  9. viscin
  10. viscious
  11. VISCMA

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