Soakingly

Part of speech: adverb

Definitions

1. In a manner characterized by thorough saturation or extreme wetness; done with the effect of completely drenching or permeating; involving a state of being heavily soaked
2. Describing an action or state that results in being entirely drenched or saturated with liquid; indicating thorough absorption or complete wetness; performed in a way that causes extensive soaking
3. With the quality of being intensely wet or flooded with moisture; conveying the sense of total immersion in liquid; representing a condition or process of thorough soaking or drenching

Etymology: "Soakingly" is simply "soaking" with the adverbial ending "-ly" attached. "Soaking" here is the present participle of "soak," used as an adjective meaning so wet as to be thoroughly drenched, and "-ly" turns that adjective into an adverb describing how something is done. So the word means "in a drenching fashion," as in rain falling soakingly on a field. The root "soak" is an older English verb meaning to steep something in liquid until it is saturated, and the "-ly" suffix is one of the most productive ways English forms adverbs from adjectives. Because the formation is transparent, the word needs little explanation beyond its two parts.

Synonyms: thoroughly, completely, fully, intensely, utterly

Antonyms: slightly, partially, incompletely, lightly, superficially