stoppingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a way that causes something to stop.
Example Sentences
- "a heart-stoppingly beautiful man"
- "Over a dirty hemp tunic he'd thrown a jerkin of goat's pelt in the manner of goatherds, two splints on the ankles were tied blood-stoppingly fast with leather thongs."
- "Neither of them detracted from how traffic-stoppingly handsome he was, but they were enough to inspire questions and the ensuing jokes about how she'd beaten him up."
Etymology
From stopping + -ly.