Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contrastingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English

Syllables: con-trast-ing-ly
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a contrasting manner; by way of contrast.

Etymology

Etymology tree English contrasting Middle English -ly English -ly English contrastingly From contrasting + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more contrastingly (comparative) most contrastingly (superlative)

Questions

What does contrastingly mean?: In a contrasting manner; by way of contrast.
Where does contrastingly come from?: Etymology tree English contrasting Middle English -ly English -ly English contrastingly From contrasting + -ly.

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