How to pronounce“gingerly”in English
But somehow, by the 23rd of July, just a week before their funding ran out, the new lens was ready to test.
They gingerly placed it into the microscope, but like every time before it, the lens was unstable and failed.
So they decided to switch off the equipment for 24 hours to allow the magnets to settle.
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Definitions of “gingerly”
In a cautious and delicate manner; (very) carefully or cautiously.
“He placed the glass jar gingerly on the concrete step.”
Chiefly of dancing or walking: done with small, dainty steps; daintily; also, with excessive delicacy; affectedly, mincingly.
“Oh! ſhe lookes ſo ſugredly, ſo ſimpringly, ſo gingerly, ſo amarouſly, ſo amiably. […] [She] is ſuch an intycing ſhee-vvitch, carrying the charmes of your Ievvels about her. Oh!”
Often of movements: very careful, cautious, or delicate.
“We can honestly commend the Atlantic Monthly as the most able and spirited of American periodicals, at the present time, and we like it, moreover, because it dares have opinions and to express them in unmistakable terms, on subjects which when referred to at all, by most of the current magazines, are mentioned in the gingerliest namby-pamby style of common place neutrality.”
Often of a person or the way they move: dainty, delicate; also, excessively delicate; affected, mincing.
“All yᵉ rest of my trimmest, tricksiest, gingerliest ioyes, / But very tædious and most odious toyes?”
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