shimmeringly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.
Example Sentences
- "The day was shimmeringly hot."
- "[…] I caught the occasional sight of water, shimmeringly reflecting the frosty stars;"
- "[…] the tank was filled, to within a foot of the top, with shimmeringly brilliant white fluid […]"
- "[The sun] made the window glass waver, shimmeringly twisted what hung beyond it […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English shimmering Middle English -ly English -ly English shimmeringly From shimmering + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more shimmeringly (comparative)
most shimmeringly (superlative)