artfully

Questions about artfully

What does artfully mean?

artfully means "in an artful manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in artfully?

artfully has 3 syllables: art-ful-ly. The stress falls on "art". In IPA it is /ˈɑɹtfəli/.

What is another word for artfully?

Close synonyms include disingenuously, craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is artfully a common word?

artfully 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.