gingerly

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adverb

in a careful way, because you are afraid of being hurt, of making a noise, etc: He opened the box gingerly and looked inside.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

gingerlyEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary gingerlyEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus gingerlyEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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Is gingerly a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, gingerly is tagged as adverb.

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