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Smartingly vs Startingly - What's the difference?

smartingly | startingly |

As adverbs the difference between smartingly and startingly

is that smartingly is so as to smart; with a stinging pain while startingly is by sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.

smartingly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • So as to smart; with a stinging pain.
  • * (Robert Louis Stevenson), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    • The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even be conscious of all that he had lost.

    startingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)