Clatteringly

Part of speech: adverb

Definitions

1. The fashion in which loud and jarring noises are created through quick, successive impacts occurs when items strike each other with considerable force
2. A way of producing a raucous sound through repeated banging or collision typically involves objects interacting in a chaotic manner
3. In a way that generates loud, rapid, and often harsh or unsettling noises by striking or shaking objects

Etymology: "Clatteringly" is a plain formation: the adverb "clattering" with the suffix "-ly" added to turn it into a manner adverb, meaning in a clattering way. The clattering itself comes from "clatter," a verb whose sound-imitating character is easy to hear in its repeated consonants, the "cl" onset and the rattling "tt" that suggest hard objects knocking together. The word's real interest lies in the verb it grows from. "Clatter" describes a rapid run of impacts, plates on a tray or hooves on cobbles, each one sharp enough to be heard distinctly, and "-ly" simply attaches that manner to an action. "Clatteringly" therefore describes how something happens, not what it is.

Synonyms: noisily, clamorously

Antonyms: quietly