warningly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9

Definition of warningly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a warning manner; in such a way as to warn.
    “[…] Moby Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his submerged trunk, entirely hiding the wrenched hideousness of his jaw. But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water; for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch […] and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight.”
    “The woman put her finger to her lips, warningly.”
    “The outsides of old Edinburgh churches frightened her, they were of such dark stone, like presences almost the colour of the Castle rock, and were built so warningly with their upraised fingers.”

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Etymology

From warning + -ly.

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