arduously

1. 1.

   in an arduous manner

   “they worked arduously”

Questions about arduously

What does arduously mean?

arduously means "in an arduous manner".

How many syllables are in arduously?

arduously has 4 syllables and divides as ar-du-ou-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 arduously a common word?

arduously 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.