英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːnɪŋli/

副詞

meaningly (comparative more meaningly, superlative most meaningly)

1. With an implied meaning; with significance; meaningfully.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 286:

     Fascinated, she stood shaken ungovernably by its horrible suggestiveness, while above and about her the trees shivered meaningly.

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 309:

     Ada opened the album at one of its maroon markers meaningly inserted here and there, glanced once, reclicked the clasp, handed the grinning blackmailer a thousand-dollar note that she happened to have in her bag, summoned Bouteillan and told him to throw Kim out.