unpressingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Not pressingly.
Example Sentences
- "Not high Olympus—nor your fructive earth, / E’er to such fairy-forms gave birth: / They vault with sylph-like ease and grace, / From dragons-backs, to th’ hippocampi race: / And are so light of frame, that when they roam, / They ride unpressingly the billows’ foam!"
- "It has wit and pleasant malice, but they are not sudden and apart from it, like set jewels, but are inherent in it, and do their work swiftly, casually, and unpressingly."
- "It possesses also a humble appeal of personality, a tone as unpressingly intimate as the touch of a hand on one’s arm."
- "“Do you wish to stay for the interment?” asked Helda, formally and unpressingly."
Etymology
From un- + pressingly.
Inflected Forms
more unpressingly (comparative)
most unpressingly (superlative)