loomingly

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adverb

So as to loom.

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Meanings

adverbloomingly (comparative more loomingly, superlative most loomingly)

comparative more loomingly · superlative most loomingly

  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.)

    2009 May 10, Daphne Merkin, “A Journey Through Darkness”, in New York Times

Origin

From looming + -ly.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

limnology
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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