gratingly

gratingly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English grat(e)
English -ing
English grating
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gratingly

    From grating + -ly.

    Adverb

    gratingly (comparative more gratingly, superlative most gratingly)

    1. With a grating sound.
    2. So as to grate or jar; in a tiresome or irritating manner.
      • 2025 September 30, Larry Sanger, “6. Reveal who Wikipedia’s leaders are.”, in larrysanger.org‎[1]:
        User pages in general tend to be gratingly cute.
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