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gropingly

adv · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adv

Meaning 1

In a groping manner; blindly.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Letter to Robert Bridges dated 27 April, 1881 in Claude Colleer Abbott (editor), Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, Oxford University Press, 1935, p. 125, I am gropingly making my way into harmony and may come to harmonise some of my airs.

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2

adverb

Meaning 2

in an uncertain groping manner

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree English groping Middle English -ly English -ly English gropingly From groping + -ly.

Across languages

Translations

4 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: пипнешком (pipneškom) — in a groping manner — see also blindly
  • Catalan: a les palpentes — in a groping manner — see also blindly
  • Italian: a tentoni — in a groping manner — see also blindly
  • Italian: alla cieca — in a groping manner — see also blindly