Meanings
adverbruggedly (comparative more ruggedly, superlative most ruggedly)
comparative more ruggedly · superlative most ruggedly
- In a rugged manner.
It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome features.
1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I
Origin
- Middle Englishruggedli
- Englishruggedly
From Middle English ruggedli, ruggidly, equivalent to rugged + -ly.
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