crushingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
So as to defeat overwhelmingly.
adv
So as to belittle; dishearteningly.
Etymology
Etymology tree English crushing Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English crushingly From crushing + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more crushingly (comparative)
most crushingly (superlative)