wastingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a way that causes wastage; wastefully.
Example Sentences
- "As in decapitating the whale, the operator's instrument is brought close to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the spermaceti magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its invaluable contents."
Etymology
From wasting + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more wastingly (comparative)
most wastingly (superlative)