Contextualizebeta

fearsomely

adv

Etymology

From fearsome + -ly.

  1. inherited from fǣran
  2. inherited from feren
  3. derived from *per-✻
  4. inherited from *fērō✻
  5. inherited from fǣr
  6. inherited from feer
  7. formed as fearsome — “fear + -some”
  8. formed as fearsomely — “fearsome + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a fearsome manner, or to a fearsome extent

    • After supper, the men sprawled in their bunks or along the deacon-seat, and fearsomely they spat and swore, and fearsomely they lied.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fearsomely. 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