sibilantly
8.3
In a soft hissing way
- adverb
- /ˈsɪbɪləntli/
:
sibilantemente
- The snake moved sibilantly through the underbrush, its hissing warning nearby animals.
Examples
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As the wind blew through the old tree branches, it whispered sibilantly, creating an eerie atmosphere.
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There was a slight breeze blowing, a wispy, barely perceptible current of air that animated the blue-lit grass stalks and whispered sibilantly.
Fiction book (1991) -
She spoke sibilantly, the soft 's' sounds echoing in the quiet room.
Synonyms
sizzlingly
vssibilantly
6.7
In a way that makes a hissing or crackling sound from heat
focuses only on a clear hissing or s like sound
Surface Forms
sibilantly positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word sibilantly comes from the Latin root sibilare, which means 'to hiss'. Think of the common word 'hiss', which is a soft s sound, so sibilantly describes doing something with that hissing noise. The ending -ly makes it an adverb, so it tells how an action happens.
