different between stertorous vs stertorously

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st??.t??.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?st?.t?.?s/

Adjective

stertorous (comparative more stertorous, superlative most stertorous)

1. Sounding like snoring or snorting.
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter IX:

     Baldy had not moved since lying down, and his regular and somewhat sterterous breathing […] told Monica that he was alive and resting comfortably.

Derived terms

• stertorously

Related terms

• stertor

Translations

English

Etymology

From stertorous +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st??.t??.?s.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?st?.t?.?s.li/

Adverb

stertorously (comparative more stertorously, superlative most stertorously)

1. With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20

     The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that he had suffered some terrible injury.

   • 2000, Mark Gatiss, Last of the Gaderene, chapter 20

     Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.

Related terms

• stertor
• stertorous

Translations