Loomingly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 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
More examples"(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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