Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. With great ease and success: Things are going swimmingly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; easily; without obstruction; with great success; prosperously.
Wiktionary
- adv. informal In a very favorable manner; agreeably; without difficulty; successfully.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with no problems or difficulties
Etymologies
- swimming + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Things are already so rancorous between the Tories and the Lib Dems -- despite public protestations that talks are going "swimmingly" -- that it would be little surprise if we had a second general election within months.”
“No new love, but the same old love is going swimmingly, which is just as good.”
“If things go swimmingly, which is always my hope, then that cost would be lessened by a large amount," he remarked.”
“2007: No new love, but the same old love is going swimmingly, which is just as good.”
“I guess as long as it's raining outside Frank's window everything is just "swimmingly" wonderful.”
“President Elect Obama tells us after over five years and thousands of mistakes and lies, the occupation of Iraq is going so "swimmingly" (the "surge" worked myth) that we can afford to send troops from there to the new righteous war, Afghanistan.”
“I pick up the van, drive back to work and the rest of the day goes swimmingly, meaning ... goes fine.”
“However, assuming all is going "swimmingly," I'm then able to turn my attention from performance management to results management.”
“The Sugababes newcomer has been dating Norwood for a few weeks, according to the Sunday Mirror, which also reports that the relationship is going "swimmingly".”
“As far as I was to know all fish would get along 'swimmingly'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘swimmingly’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Notable
undulate, priaprism, alphanumeric, conjure, love, roughshod, helpless, palatial, chortle, swimmingly, mustachioed, symbiotic and 21 more...
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imm
immunogen, immobile, immiscible, shimmy, slimming, glimmer, immigrate, immutability, swimmingly, brimming, primming, skimming and 25 more...
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easy
creasy, over easy, free-and-easy, greasy, speakeasy, take it easy, weasy, lope, leisurely, wing chair, uncomplicated, luminous and 38 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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Retro Words
...bringing them back
hotsy-totsy, loligag, swimmingly, rouge, twit, tarnashin', okey dokey, whoopsy daisey, five and dime
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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sillygoose's Words
nefarious, waffle, dilettante, love, obstreperous, suggestible, fodder, plucky, trajectory, eclectic, juggernaut, demure and 115 more...
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word list!!!!
lagniappe
syzygy, bloviate, lagniappe, laconic, condign, umbrage, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious, capitulate, glower, repast and 179 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 2: More Common
pilgrim, indubitably, incorrigible, bombastic, histrionics, depredation, perspicuity, discombobulate, peregrination, ambulatory, redux, fractious and 164 more...
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anotherfailedattempt's Words
kakistocracy, conflagration, pollyanna, equanimity, punctillious, obstreperous, ribald, belligerent, truculent, verbose, lachrymose, onanism and 278 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for swimmingly.
bilby I got to say this in a play I was in at Uni. Aug 16, 2008
milosrdenstvi A word I am fond of. Aug 16, 2008