trippingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a manner that is lively or fluid.
Example Sentences
- "The drunk stumbled trippingly down the street."
- "By the dead and drowsy fire / Every elf and fairy sprite / Hop as light as bird from brier, / And this ditty after me / Sing, and dance it trippingly."
- "The result follows trippingly from the premise. But adopting the premise requires departing from judicial practice and principle."
- "Charlotte Peed, as Miss Prism, also gives a solid performance. Wilde's words come trippingly off her tongue."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more trippingly (comparative)
most trippingly (superlative)