INTERROGATIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interrogatively mean? 

• INTERROGATIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb INTERROGATIVELY has 2 senses:

1. in a questioning format

2. with curiosity

  Familiarity information: INTERROGATIVELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERROGATIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a questioning format

Pertainym:

interrogative (relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With curiosity

Synonyms:

curiously; inquisitively; interrogatively

Context example:

the baby looked around curiously

 Context examples 

"We four?" said Harker interrogatively, looking from one to another of us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking; so to make sure, I said interrogatively:— "Count Dracula?"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)