shimmeringly

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adverb

In a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.

“The day was shimmeringly hot.”

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adverbshimmeringly (comparative more shimmeringly, superlative most shimmeringly)

comparative more shimmeringly · superlative most shimmeringly

  1. In a shimmering manner; while shimmering; so as to shimmer.

    The day was shimmeringly hot.

    3 more examples

    […] I caught the occasional sight of water, shimmeringly reflecting the frosty stars;

    1857, Georgiana Marion Craik, chapter 2, in Riverston,, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 13

    […] the tank was filled, to within a foot of the top, with shimmeringly brilliant white fluid […]

    1931 April, Jack Williamson, “The Lake of Light”, in Astounding Stories, volume 6, number 1, page 104

    [The sun] made the window glass waver, shimmeringly twisted what hung beyond it […]

    1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Random House, Part 2, p. 122

Origin

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