boomingly

English

Etymology

booming +‎ -ly

Adverb

boomingly (comparative more boomingly, superlative most boomingly)

1. In a booming manner; loudly.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities‎^[1], Book 25, Chapter 4:

     'Mid this spectacle of wide and wanton spoil, insular noises of falling rocks would boomingly explode upon the silence and fright all the echoes, which ran shrieking in and out among the caves, as wailing women and children in some assaulted town.

   • 1928 July 28, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Basil: The Freshest Boy”, in The Saturday Evening Post:

     Then, impelled to some gesture, he raised his voice and in one of his first basso notes called boomingly and without reticence for the waiter.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 13, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     A questioner from the floor […] accused him of being too rich to care about ordinary people; and while Gerald boomingly deplored the statement you could see it sinking and settling in his flushed features as a kind of acclaim.

Anagrams

• myoglobin