ruminatingly

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adverb

While ruminating; with thought or meditation.

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Meanings

adverbruminatingly (comparative more ruminatingly, superlative most ruminatingly)

comparative more ruminatingly · superlative most ruminatingly

  1. While ruminating; with thought or meditation.

    "And it always seems to me," he went on ruminatingly, "that, after all we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go. I know it's shocking blasphemy to say so, but then it's different here, you see. We are further away."

    1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt

Origin

From ruminating + -ly.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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