Contextualizebeta

clingily

adv

Etymology

From clingy + -ly.

  1. inherited from *klinganą✻
  2. inherited from *klingan✻
  3. inherited from clingan — “to adhere”
  4. inherited from clingen
  5. formed as clingy — “cling + -y”
  6. suffixed as clingily — “clingy + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a clingy manner.

    • In the high-functioning range they can be charming when operating regressively; in the borderline and psychotic ranges histrionic clients may become physically ill, clingily dependent, whiny and demanding, or addicted to crisis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for clingily. 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