Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

aspiringly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: as-pir-ing-ly
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In an aspiring manner.

Example Sentences

"to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward"

Etymology

From aspiring + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: aspiring

Inflected Forms

more aspiringly (comparative) most aspiringly (superlative)

Questions

What does aspiringly mean?: In an aspiring manner.
Where does aspiringly come from?: From aspiring + -ly.

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