trippingly

/'tripiɳli/

Thân thiện

She danced trippingly across the stage.

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..."

Học thuật

Adverb

1. moving with quick light steps
   • she walked lightsomely down the long staircase

Từ đồng nghĩa

• lightsomely