Plumply
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Plumply is an adverb meaning unreservedly; fully.
Meaning
unreservedly; fully.
More Meanings
- With plumpness, in a plump way.
Example Sentences
Quite plumply, forgot the appointment.
She lifted her night-dress over her head and for a moment caught a glimpse of her nakedness in the tarnished looking-glass—plumply rounded thighs and knees, the dimple in her stomach.
He was plumply pleased by salutes on the street from unknown small boys; his ears were tickled to ruddy ecstasy by hearing himself called "Colonel;" and if he did not attend Sunday School merely to be thus exalted, certainly he thought about it all the way there.
Now Billy […] had some of the weaknesses inseparable from essential good-nature; and among these was a reluctance, almost an incapacity of plumply saying no to an abrupt proposition not obviously absurd, on the face of it, nor obviously unfriendly, nor iniquitous.
Synonyms for plumply
Depending on context, synonyms include plainly.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include richly, fullwise, plum, full on, plenarly, repletely.
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