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appreciatively

adv
/ʌˈpɹiʃəˌtɪvli/

Etymology

From appreciative + -ly.

  1. derived from appretiātus
  2. borrowed from appreciātus
  3. suffixed as appreciative — “appreciate + ive”
  4. formed as appreciatively — “appreciative + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In an appreciative manner.

    • Mr Carrados laughed appreciatively as he turned the pages of the book.
    • ESTRAGON: I've forgotten. (Chews.) That's what annoys me. (He looks at the carrot appreciatively, dangles it between finger and thumb.) I'll never forget this carrot. (He sucks the end of it meditatively.) Ah yes, now I remember.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for appreciatively. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA