cyclically

In a cyclic manner; in cycles; periodically.

Adverb

  1. In a cyclic manner; in cycles; periodically.
    • The exhibits, moreover, reject the supposedly Eurocentric notion of historical development. “Things are looked at very cyclically, not in a linear way,” one curator told The Washington Post. - 2004 December 12,...
    • El Niño, a temperature change in the Pacific ocean that happens cyclically, may have begun interacting with the long-term process of global warming, with catastrophic results. - 2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate...

Origin

From cyclic + -ally or cyclical + -ly.

Forms

more cyclically most cyclically

Derived

spirocyclically