Meanings
adverbmountainously (comparative more mountainously, superlative most mountainously)
comparative more mountainously · superlative most mountainously
- In a mountainous manner.
Besides her fruitfull earth, her mightie breadth and length, Doth Chiltern fitly match: which mountainously hie, And beeing very long, so likewise shee doth lie;
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 15 p. 3
Origin
From mountainous + -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.
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mountainously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountainously
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“mountainously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountainously. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mountainously,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountainously.
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