Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

brushingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: brush-ing-ly
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

With a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.

Example Sentences

"His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance."

Etymology

From brushing + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: brushing

Questions

What does brushingly mean?: With a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.
Where does brushingly come from?: From brushing + -ly.

How to pronounce brushingly

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