wonderingly

wonderingly adverb: in a wondering manner; with wonderment.

Adverb

wonderingly (comparative more wonderingly, superlative most wonderingly)

In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
- The flowers that Florence held to her breast began to fall when she heard those words, so wonderingly spoken.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “chapter 23”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 245
- The poor creature looked wonderingly round at the night, at the lantern, at their two figures, as if he could not believe that at that hour, when every living thing was intended to be in shelter and at rest, he was called upon to go out and labour.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaie & Co., Volume I, Phase the First, Chapter 4, p. 50

“That will be sat-is-fac-tor-y,” said Tik-Tok, picking up the gun and examining it wonderingly, for he had never before seen such a weapon.1914, L. Frank Baum, chapter 8, in Tik-Tok of Oz, Chicago: Reilly & Britton, page 89:
She listened to him wonderingly as he told her of the real miner’s cottage of his birth in Carmarthenshire where his father still lived […]1960, Muriel Spark, chapter 8, in The Bachelors, London: Macmillan:

comparative	more wonderingly
superlative	most wonderingly

From wondering + -ly.

What does wonderingly mean?: Wonderingly means in a wondering manner; with wonderment.
How do you use wonderingly in a sentence?: “That will be sat-is-fac-tor-y,” said Tik-Tok, picking up the gun and examining it wonderingly, for he had never before seen such a weapon.
What part of speech is wonderingly?: Wonderingly is an adverb.

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