LINGERINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lingeringly mean? 

• LINGERINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb LINGERINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a slow, leisurely or prolonged way

  Familiarity information: LINGERINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINGERINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a slow, leisurely or prolonged way

Synonyms:

lingeringly; protractedly

Context example:

her voice was swift, yet ever the last words fell lingeringly

 Context examples 

Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly; "A long time ago" came out like the saddest cadence of a funeral hymn.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He seemed reluctant to put away the picture, held it for another minute, lingeringly, before my eyes. Then he returned the wallet and pulled from his pocket a ragged old copy of a book called "Hopalong Cassidy."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)