crashingly

crashingly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English crashing
English -ly
English crashingly

    From crashing + -ly.

    Adverb

    crashingly (comparative more crashingly, superlative most crashingly)

    1. While crashing, or as if crashing
      He stumbled crashingly around the apartment.
    2. Absolutely; terribly
      • 2009 January 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Tilting at Windmills, but Not at Traditions, in Performance From Maryinsky”, in New York Times‎[1]:
        It is almost 50 years since Western dancers first tried to cure the Russians of this crashingly vulgar habit.
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