adulterously

1. 1.

   in an adulterous manner

   “he behaved adulterously”

Questions about adulterously

What does adulterously mean?

adulterously means "in an adulterous manner".

How many syllables are in adulterously?

adulterously has 5 syllables and divides as a-dul-te-rou-sly 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 adulterously a common word?

adulterously 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.