drivingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With forceful, inexorable motion.
adv
So as to drive.
Example Sentences
- "Keep her eyes, for the time, from her husband’s as she might, she soon found herself much more drivingly conscious of the strain on his own wit."
- "One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]"
Etymology
From driving + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more drivingly (comparative)
most drivingly (superlative)