stoppingly

English

Etymology

stopping +‎ -ly

Adverb

stoppingly (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) In a way that causes something to stop.
    a heart-stoppingly beautiful man
    • 2000, Eva Bourke, Travels with Gandolpho, page 38:
      Over a dirty hemp tunic he'd thrown a jerkin of goat's pelt in the manner of goatherds, two splints on the ankles were tied blood-stoppingly fast with leather thongs.
    • 2011, Victoria Pade, It Takes a Family:
      Neither of them detracted from how traffic-stoppingly handsome he was, but they were enough to inspire questions and the ensuing jokes about how she'd beaten him up.
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