searingly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English searing

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English searingly

From searing + -ly.

Adverb

searingly (comparative more searingly, superlative most searingly)

1. In a burning, blistering, hot manner.
2. (figurative) Harshly; mercilessly.

   a searingly honest appraisal of her career prospects

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 23:

     Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.

Anagrams

• layerings, syringeal, yearlings