grindingly

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adverb

With a grinding sound or motion.

“It was a grindingly dull lecture.”

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Meanings

adverbgrindingly (comparative more grindingly, superlative most grindingly)

comparative more grindingly · superlative most grindingly

  1. With a grinding sound or motion.

    Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath.

    1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 463
  2. With tedious repetition; mechanically.

    It was a grindingly dull lecture.

Origin

From grinding + -ly.

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APA

grindingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grindingly

MLA

“grindingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grindingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grindingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grindingly.

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