creakingly
- adverb
- /ˈkriːkɪŋli/
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chirriantemente
- As we walked up the stairs, the floorboards groaned and creakingly protested under our weight.
Examples
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The old wooden door opened creakingly, echoing through the empty hallway.
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We sit creakingly in a white wicker chair among the columns and screens of a wooden porch.
Fiction book (1991) -
Creakingly slow geologic forces opened up the corridor for humanity's earliest ancestors to take their first steps out of Africa and into the world beyond.
Academic text (2003) -
Ponderously, he shuffled forward, bent over as much as he could, tilted his head creakingly this way and that, remembering the direction of the ball as it shot over the faded ghost of home plate, analyzing, judging angles.
Fiction book (2002) -
He moved creakingly across the room, the old floor squeaking beneath him.
Synonyms
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In a way that makes a short rough noise when old wood or metal moves
In a way that makes a high, unpleasant sound like an old door or gate
In a rough, creaky way like metal covered in rust
With a short high sound like a mouse or a door hinge
Antonyms
How Noisily
Surface Forms
Morphology
creakingly = creaking (transparent) = creak + ing + ly
Standard adverb formation by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'creaking', yielding 'in a creaking manner'.
Etymology
Creakingly comes from the simple sound word creak, which copies the long, high noise made by old wood or metal, and the endings -ing and -ly turn it into 'in a creaking way'. So, to do something creakingly is to do it with that creaky, squeaking sound.