Wonderingly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Wonderingly is an adverb meaning In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
Meaning
In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
Example Sentences
The flowers that Florence held to her breast began to fall when she heard those words, so wonderingly spoken.
“That will be sat-is-fac-tor-y,” said Tik-Tok, picking up the gun and examining it wonderingly, for he had never before seen such a weapon.
She listened to him wonderingly as he told her of the real miner’s cottage of his birth in Carmarthenshire where his father still lived […]
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaie & Co., Volume I, Phase the First, Chapter 4, p. 50, The poor creature looked wonderingly round at the night, at the lantern, at their two figures, as if he could not believe that at that hour, when every living thing was intended to be in shelter and at rest, he was called upon to go out and labour.
Synonyms for wonderingly
Depending on context, synonyms include questioningly.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include questioningly, wonderly, wonderfully, amazedly, wondrously, wondrous.
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