reminiscingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a reminiscing manner.
Example Sentences
- "But my drinkin’ days are over. I only speak reminiscingly."
- "From around us came shuffling and whispering whilst he gazed reminiscingly at the star-glinted sea."
- "With difficulty they recognized the Tree of Knowledge. They looked at it long and reminiscingly, as it had been the very source of their tragedy."
- "Larla smiled reminiscingly down at her small son, remembering how John’s great-grandfather had accepted his unexpected arrival into the family with surprisingly good grace."
Etymology
From reminiscing + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more reminiscingly (comparative)
most reminiscingly (superlative)