drivingly

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adverb

So as to drive or motivate.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbdrivingly (comparative more drivingly, superlative most drivingly)

comparative more drivingly · superlative most drivingly

  1. So as to drive or motivate.

    Keep her eyes, for the time, from her husband’s as she might, she soon found herself much more drivingly conscious of the strain on his own wit.

    1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, Part 4, Chapter 34
  2. With forceful, inexorable motion.

    One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]

    1870, The Shamrock, volume 8, page 18
  3. engineeringSo as to drive.

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“drivingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drivingly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drivingly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drivingly.

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