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say it: JIN-jur-lee
gingerly is an adjective and adverb meaning "with extreme care or delicacy". It carries 2 recorded senses.
with extreme care or delicacy
“they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones”
“the issue was handled only in a gingerly way”
in a gingerly manner
“gingerly I raised the edge of the blanket”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gingerly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.