ripplingly

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adverb

With a rippling motion.

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Meanings

adverbripplingly (comparative more ripplingly, superlative most ripplingly)

comparative more ripplingly · superlative most ripplingly

  1. With a rippling motion.

    Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows[…]

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin

From rippling + -ly.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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