Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shruggingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: shrug-ging-ly
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

With a shrugging gesture.

Example Sentences

"But the young girl discards it, displeased by its scent, and the rose is tossed to the ground and hardly noticed by the student as he shruggingly steps over the nightingale’s body."

Etymology

From shrugging + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: shrugging

Inflected Forms

more shruggingly (comparative) most shruggingly (superlative)

Questions

What does shruggingly mean?: With a shrugging gesture.
Where does shruggingly come from?: From shrugging + -ly.

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