meaningly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English meningli, menyngli, equivalent to meaning + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]meaningly (comparative more meaningly, superlative most meaningly)
- With an implied meaning; with significance; meaningfully.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 286:
- Fascinated, she stood shaken ungovernably by its horrible suggestiveness, while above and about her the trees shivered meaningly.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 309:
- Ada opened the album at one of its maroon markers meaningly inserted here and there, glanced once, reclicked the clasp, handed the grinning blackmailer a thousand-dollar note that she happened to have in her bag, summoned Bouteillan and told him to throw Kim out.