fallingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair."
- "[…] he lurched forward fallingly to receive him."
Etymology
From falling + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more fallingly (comparative)
most fallingly (superlative)