wonderingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
Example Sentences
- "The flowers that Florence held to her breast began to fall when she heard those words, so wonderingly spoken."
- "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaie & Co., Volume I, Phase the First, Chapter 4, p. 50, The poor creature looked wonderingly round at the night, at the lantern, at their two figures, as if he could not believe that at that hour, when every living thing was intended to be in shelter and at rest, he was called upon to go out and labour."
- "“That will be sat-is-fac-tor-y,” said Tik-Tok, picking up the gun and examining it wonderingly, for he had never before seen such a weapon."
- "She listened to him wonderingly as he told her of the real miner’s cottage of his birth in Carmarthenshire where his father still lived […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English wondering Middle English -ly English -ly English wonderingly From wondering + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more wonderingly (comparative)
most wonderingly (superlative)