affectedly

1. 1.

   in an affected manner

Questions about affectedly

What does affectedly mean?

affectedly means "in an affected manner".

How many syllables are in affectedly?

affectedly has 4 syllables and divides as af-fec-ted-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 affectedly a common word?

affectedly 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.