unripplinglyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈrɪpl̩ɪŋli/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈrɪplɪŋli/, U.S. /ˌənˈrɪp(ə)lɪŋli/ rare.
Without rippling.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adverb] > not roughly
wavelessly1819
unripplingly1842
1842 Court Gaz. 5 Mar. 1003/2 The thoughts by which the artist or author would win reputation must be mirrored calmly, unripplingly upon his mind.
a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) viii. 63 Its current, unripplingly smooth,..bore on our bark.
1921 L. R. Freeman Down Columbia vi. 102 The current..ran easily, effortlessly, unripplingly, and with an almost uncanny absence of swirls and eddies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adv.1842- post route
- pound brush
- pound butter
- pound cake
- pound close
- pound coin
- pound day
- pound etc of sterlings
- pound etc sterling
- pound etc sterlings
- pound fee
- pound for pound
- pound franc
- pound great
- pound house
- pound it
- pound law
- pound nail
- pound net
- pound note
- pound of flesh
- pound of lead
- pound of sterlings
- pound off
- pound one's ear