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WONDERINGLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wonderingly mean?
• WONDERINGLY (adverb)
The adverb WONDERINGLY has 1 sense:
1. in a curious and questioning manner
Familiarity information: WONDERINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a curious and questioning manner
Synonyms:
questioningly; wonderingly
Context example:
they turned their heads questioningly, as if awaiting further instructions
Pertainym:
wondering (showing curiosity)
Context examples
Besides, said Dora, putting back her hair, and looking wonderingly at my aunt and me, why shouldn't you both go?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I meditated wonderingly on this incident; but gradually quitting it, as I found it for the present inexplicable, I turned to the consideration of my master's manner to myself.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I stood regarding him wonderingly.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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