abortively

1. 1.

   in an unfruitful manner

Questions about abortively

What does abortively mean?

abortively means "in an unfruitful manner".

How many syllables are in abortively?

abortively has 5 syllables and divides as a-bor-ti-ve-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is abortively a common word?

abortively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.