movingly

/ˈmuːvɪŋli/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈmuːvɪŋli/ (ame, ipa)

movingly — 副詞

1. if someone speaks, writes, sings, or performs movingly, what they do stirs deep

1.副詞C1
釋義

感人地

用引起悲傷、同情或感動的方式

if someone speaks, writes, sings, or performs movingly, what they do stirs deep feelings of sadness, sympathy, or tenderness in the people listening or watching.

例句

Lakshmi spoke movingly at her grandfather's funeral about the long walks they had taken together.

Lakshmi 在祖父的告別式上感人地談起兩人從前一起散的那些長步。

verb + movingly: spoke movingly about [topic]

The young soldier wrote movingly to his mother about friends he had lost in battle.

那名年輕士兵動人地寫信給母親，談到他在戰場上失去的那些朋友。

wrote movingly to [recipient] about [subject]

同義詞
  • touchingly

    warmer and sweeter; closer to tenderness than to sadness.

  • poignantly

    more literary; emphasises a bittersweet ache, often about loss.

  • affectingly

    formal and rarer; suggests the speaker/work stirs feeling without specifying which feeling.

  • stirringly

    different colour — excitement or pride rather than sadness; e.g. a stirring speech rouses action.

反義詞
  • blandly

    with no emotional colour at all.

  • coldly

    with deliberate detachment; opposite of emotional warmth.

文法句型

verb + movingly

movingly + adjective/past-participle

用法筆記

Almost always modifies verbs of expression or performance — speak, write, sing, play, describe, portray. Subject is usually a person creating something heartfelt, or sometimes the artwork itself in passive form. Distinguish from 'touchingly', which leans toward warmth and sweetness; 'movingly' carries weight and often sadness.

常見錯誤

❌The cake was moved movingly to the centre of the table.
✅The cake was carefully placed in the centre of the table.
💡'movingly' is about emotional impact, not physical motion.
❌She walked movingly across the room.
✅She walked gracefully across the room.
💡'movingly' does not describe how someone physically moves; it describes how someone expresses something that touches others.