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🧀 In a soft way 😊 In a tender way
meltingly

meltingly

1 4.0
In a way that becomes very soft and quickly breaks apart in the mouth
  • adverb
  • /ˈmɛltɪŋli/
translation icon : derretidamente
  • Where it really starts to come home to me is in the truck—where else?—on another meltingly hot day.
  • meltingly soft
  • meltingly tender

Examples

  • Juicy, spicy, shredded beef barbacoa is great here, and the beef head and beef tongue are meltingly soft with strong, straightforward flavor.

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  • Our experiences match many of those noted here: fantastic food, but uneven sometimes—one week the duck was meltingly soft, the next week it was tough—and adding Tabasco to the green goddess dressing?

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  • Cook the potatoes until they are meltingly soft and ready to mash.

  • He prepared a dish of meltingly tender beef, infused with rich spices.

  • The chocolate melted into a meltingly smooth sauce that coated the fruit beautifully.

How Easily

meltingly
1 4.0
readily
163 2.3
arduously
1 7.8
hardly
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

meltingly positive

Morphology

meltingly = melting (transparent) = melt + ing + ly

Adding '-ly' to the adjective 'melting' to form an adverb is a regular, clearly productive step.

Etymology

Meltingly comes from the simple verb melt, which means 'become soft or liquid', with the endings -ing and -ly added to show how something happens. So when food is called 'meltingly' soft, it really feels like it is melting in your mouth.