ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fallingly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Fallingly is an adverb meaning While falling; with a falling motion.

Meaning

While falling; with a falling motion.

Example Sentences

[…] he lurched forward fallingly to receive him.
Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.

Related Words

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