momently

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UK/ˈməʊməntli/

adverb

From moment to moment; continually.

“Growing momently more discontent.”

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by degreeslittle by littlemomentarilybit by bitpiecemealby inchescontinuallyfootmeal
OriginMiddle English momently →
First used 16th c.Scrabble 15
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Meanings

adverbmomently (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableFrom moment to moment; continually.First known use 16th c.

    Growing momently more discontent.

    3 more examples

    And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, / As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, / A mighty fountain momently was forced: […]

    1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 56

    The silent Ocean, and the starlight bay, / The twilight glow, which momently grew less, / The voiceless sands, and dropping caves, that lay / Around them, made them to each other press […]

    1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza 188

    Huge stones and beams falling momently from the decaying roofs above them, gave evidence, by their sullen and heavy descent, of the vast height of the surrounding houses […]

    1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest

    Synonyms: by degrees, little by little, momentarily, bit by bit, by degrees, piecemeal, by inches, continually

  2. literarynot comparableMomentarily; for a moment.First known use 19th c.

    Synonyms: briefly, fleetingly, transiently, awhile, briefly, ephemerally, fleetingly, flickeringly

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbFrom moment to moment; continually.

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by degreeslittle by littlemomentarilybit by bitby degreespiecemealby inchescontinuallyfootmealinch by inchincrementallygradatimgraduallylittle by littlemomentarilyone by oneone step at a timeprogressivelystep by step

adverbMomentarily; for a moment.

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brieflyfleetinglytransientlyawhilebrieflyephemerallyfleetinglyflickeringlyfor a minutemomentarilysummarilytemporarilytransientlyad interimtransitorily

More synonyms by meaning

adverbfor an instant or moment

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momentarily

adverbat any moment

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momentarily
Also see
continuallyephemerallygraduallymomentarilytemporarily

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishmomently
  2. Englishmomently

From Middle English momently, equivalent to moment + -ly.

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APA

momently. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/momently

MLA

“momently.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/momently. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “momently,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/momently.

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