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🔥 Extremely hot 🔊 With a hissing sound
sizzlingly

sizzlingly

6.7
In a way that makes a hissing or crackling sound from heat
  • adverb
  • /ˈsɪzlɪŋli/
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  • The bacon was cooking sizzlingly in the pan.

Examples

  • The wires sparked sizzlingly as they touched the metal surface.

  • The steak was served sizzlingly on a hot plate.

  • The steak was sizzlingly hot when it arrived at the table.

  • The summer air was sizzlingly warm, making it hard to stay outside for long.

  • The bacon was cooking sizzlingly in the pan, filling the kitchen with a delicious aroma.

  • The wires sparked sizzlingly as they touched the metal surface, creating a startling noise.

  • The steak was sizzlingly hot when it arrived at the table, and everyone could hear it crackling.

Synonyms

sibilantly
vssizzlingly
8.3

In a soft hissing way

includes hissing plus hot crackling noises or a tactile sensation

Antonyms

quietly
517 1.0

In a quiet way that makes little or no noise

How Noisy

loudly
172 1.0
sizzlingly
6.7
audibly
6 3.7
quietly
517 1.0
silently
129 1.2

Surface Forms

sizzlingly positive

Morphology

sizzlingly = sizzling (transparent) = sizzle + ing + ly

Formed by adding '-ly' to 'sizzling'; the literal auditory/tactile sense (making a hissing sound) is directly predictable from 'sizzle'.

Etymology

Sizzlingly comes from the sound word sizzle and the ending -ly, which makes it describe an action. The root sizzle copies the hissing or crackling sound of hot food or metal, like hiss, so 'sizzlingly' describes something that makes or feels like that hot, hissing sound.