pantingly
- adverb
- /ˈpæntɪŋli/
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- He was pantingly excited to open his birthday presents, barely able to contain his enthusiasm.
Examples
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The dog came pantingly into the house, eager to join its owner after a long walk.
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After running the marathon, she sat down pantingly, trying to catch her breath.
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With his hand down her pants and his arm around her back and her body quaking beneath him, pantingly available for his delectation, his head was raised and he was staring off into the dark.
Fiction book (1995) -
From someone who inserted herself so seriously onto this earth, who proclaimed her stance from every podium, she breathed more pantingly until she quietly exhaled her last.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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In a way that shows you have little air because you feel excited, scared, or very tired
In a way that shows breathing hard from effort or excitement
With short, quick breaths after hard exercise
In a way that shows a person is breathing hard after effort or shock
Antonyms
How Breathless
Surface Forms
Morphology
pantingly = panting (transparent) = pant + ingly
The adverb 'pantingly' is transparently derived from the adjective 'panting' by adding the suffix '-ly'.
Etymology
The word pantingly comes from the simple verb pant, a word that copies the sound of quick breathing, plus -ing and -ly to make a word that tells how something is done. So, to act pantingly is to act 'with quick, heavy breathing' or with strong eagerness, which explains the word's modern meaning.