startingly

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adverb

By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.

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Meanings

adverbstartingly (comparative more startingly, superlative most startingly)

comparative more startingly · superlative most startingly

  1. By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.

    VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 57

Origin

From starting + -ly.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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