trippingly
/'tripiɳli/
Definition
Adverb: 1. With a light, quick, and nimble movement: Moving in a way that is agile, graceful, and effortless, often with quick steps. 2. Fluently and easily, without hesitation: Speaking or performing in a smooth, flowing, and effortless manner.
Usage and Examples
Describing movement:
- The dancer moved trippingly across the stage, as if floating on air.
- She descended the stairs trippingly, her feet barely making a sound.
Describing speech or performance:
- The actor delivered his long monologue trippingly, without a single stumble.
- A good presenter speaks trippingly, connecting ideas with natural ease.
Advanced Usage
- Literary and formal context: The word "trippingly" is often used in more literary, poetic, or formal descriptions rather than everyday conversation. It evokes a sense of grace and ease.
- The verse should be spoken trippingly on the tongue, not ponderously.
Variants and Related Words
- Trip (verb): While commonly meaning to stumble or fall, in an older or poetic sense, it can also mean to move or step lightly and nimbly.
- The fairies would trip through the moonlit forest.
- Tripping (adjective): An archaic or literary adjective meaning light and quick.
- With a tripping gait, she approached.
Synonyms
- Lightly: With little weight or force.
- Nimbly: In a quick and light way.
- Fluently: In a smooth, flowing manner (for speech).
- Effortlessly: Without requiring any apparent effort.
- Gracefully: In an elegantly smooth and controlled way.
Antonyms
- Heavily: With a lot of weight or force.
- Clumsily: In an awkward, ungraceful way.
- Haltingly: With frequent stops or pauses; not fluently.
- Laboriously: With great effort and difficulty.
Idioms and Phrases
- To speak trippingly on the tongue: A phrase famously used by William Shakespeare in (Act 3, Scene 2), advising actors to speak their lines smoothly and not too forcefully.
- "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue..."
Adverb
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moving with quick light steps
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she walked lightsomely down the long staircase
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