Loomingly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    So as to loom.

    "(It seems to me now, many years later, that I was expressing early on a chronic depressive’s wish to stay home, on the inside, instead of taking on the outside, loomingly hostile world in the form of classmates and teachers.)"

Example

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"(It seems to me now, many years later, that I was expressing early on a chronic depressive’s wish to stay home, on the inside, instead of taking on the outside, loomingly hostile world in the form of classmates and teachers.)"

Etymology

From looming + -ly.

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