ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tumbly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Tumbly is an adjective meaning Moving by, or as if, tumbling.

Meaning

Moving by, or as if, tumbling.

More Meanings

  1. Heaped up in a formless mass; tumbled together.

Example Sentences

Chey is thought to function at the flagellar motor to elicit a tumbly behavior (Parkinson, 1977). Mutations in chey result in incessantly smooth-swimming behavior.
I suppose it is unnecessary to stress the importance of color filters in photography. A sunset, a marine view or a tumbly mass of clouds will show the necessity of a set of color filters.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tumblesome, trembly, tumblerlike, tottlish, tremando, tremulous.

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