wonderingly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
22
Letters
11

Definition of wonderingly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
    “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 […]”

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Etymology

From wondering + -ly.

Words you can make from wonderingly

200+ playable · top: WINGEDLY (16 pts)

Best play wingedly 16 points

9-letter words

2 words

8-letter words

7 words

7-letter words

38 words

6-letter words

97 words

5-letter words

55 words

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