FIXEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fixedly mean? 

• FIXEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb FIXEDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a fixed manner

  Familiarity information: FIXEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIXEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a fixed manner

Context example:

he stared at me fixedly

Pertainym:

fixed (fixed and unmoving)

 Context examples 

Looking fixedly at me, she puts her hand to her forehead, and moans.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He paused and eyed her fixedly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Hyde appeared to hesitate, and then, as if upon some sudden reflection, fronted about with an air of defiance; and the pair stared at each other pretty fixedly for a few seconds.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mina gazed at him fixedly for a few minutes, during which my own heart beat like a trip hammer, for I felt that some crisis was at hand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“But why Turkish?” asked Mr. Sherlock Holmes, gazing fixedly at my boots.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"A strange affair!" I said, in a low voice: then, looking at her fixedly—"Did Mr. Rochester wake nobody?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Louis, gazing fixedly, betrayed a trouble in his face he was not quite able to hide.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then, seating himself opposite to me, he looked at me long and fixedly with his strange, twinkling, reckless eyes—eyes of a cold light blue, the color of a glacier lake.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My Lord de Clisson,” cried Lord Audley, “you look somewhat fixedly in my direction. By God's soul! I should be right glad to go further into the matter with you.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo did not cry, though she was very near it once, and was only saved from a demonstration by the consciousness that Laurie was staring fixedly at her, with a comical mixture of merriment and emotion in his wicked black eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)